Defending Values
Boy, there's nothing like sitting down to your computer with a nice cup of tea, opening your browser and finding out that you're "morally bankrupt." Oh, sorry, my mistake. That's Red Hat and "a number of other Linux distros." I'm part of the "technical media who ignores the fact that your freedoms go down the tank by making these compromises."
Such were the words delivered by OpenBSD developer Bob Beck in a thread of an open letter to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project from OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt posted out on the openbsd-misc mailing list yesterday afternoon. The "compromises" that de Raadt and Beck refer to is the decision by Red Hat, Inc.--in their work for the OLPC--to agree to a hardware vendor's non-disclosure agreement on the documentation of a hardware device driver needed for the OLPC platform.
The device at issue is Marvell's 88W8388, a wireless chip. The OLPC, according to de Raadt, needs Marvell to customize the driver so the OLPC device will handle "low-power mesh networking while the main CPU is powered off." Apparently, Marvell would only agree to do this if Red Hat, the operating system vendor, would agree to an NDA on the device's documentation.
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