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From: Kayvan Aghaiepour Sylvan <kayvan@sylvan.com>
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>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:
>>>>> "Jon" == Jon Taylor <taylorj@ggi-project.org> says:

Jon> Personally, I do not think that open-source is nearly as big a
Jon> deal for device drivers as it is for more general types of
Jon> programs like operating systems or applications.  They are quite
Jon> boring sometimes and consist largely of a bunch of one-off hacks.

Rob> I don't know what he's been smoking, [...]

Green stuff with old presidents pictures on them... :-)

Rob> but I'm a *lot* more likely to let a closed source app on a
Rob> machine than a closed source hardware driver which *runs in
Rob> kernel space*.  My machine is stable and (hopefully) reasonably
Rob> secure.  I plan to keep it that way.  Closed source can't support
Rob> that because there isn't sufficient peer review to catch as many
Rob> dangerous mistakes, and there isn't sufficient peer review to
Rob> catch possible malicious actions.

I agree completely.

			---Kayvan
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