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> Providing open source drivers/stacks will in many cases provide insight into implementation details you do not want competitors to easily understand Competit
by mikegerwitz 9y ago
> Providing open source drivers/stacks will in many cases provide insight into implementation details you do not want competitors to easily understand
Competitors will have the resources to reverse engineer; it's not an effective means of hiding implementation details. It _is_ an effective means of wasting free software and security communities' time by forcing them to reverse engineer if they want to use hardware.
- svendbt 9y agoThey will, but the cost to do so increases by several decades.