letter writing for FreeBSD support

Joseph Koshy joseph.koshy at gmail.com
Sat Oct 28 03:46:01 UTC 2006


bd> Please remove the bits about binary blobs.. Those are a
bd> Bad Thing(tm).

js> If you had the choice between binary blobs with well
js> documented use, or fully binary drivers, which would you
js> choose? I'm talking about a case, such as most notably

- For the user, binary kernel blobs are a huge security
  risk.
- As a project we don't have a stable in-kernel API, so
  it is difficult for us to provide a stable kernel
  environment for binary blobs to run in.

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