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Do they publish source code or binary drivers? If it's the latter, the article points at why they might not want their competitors to read their source code: th
by KarlKemp 5y ago
Do they publish source code or binary drivers? If it's the latter, the article points at why they might not want their competitors to read their source code: the drivers matter a lot, and starting from theirs might well cut the development costs for a competing product in half.
- gsich 5y agoSource code and no BLOBs.
- segfaultbuserr 5y agoRealtek drivers are GPL’d, but have a reputation (especially Wi-Fi dongles) of not following the coding standard of the Linux kernel and of low code quality, making them unacceptable for the upstream kernel. A driver often goes through a lengthy cleanup process by the community, first by existing as a “staging” driver in the kernel with incomplete features and unstable code, and later the code is gradually refactored before it’s finally official.