Re: [NTLK] FW: Fwd: Hacked WiFi driver

At 19:43 7.1.2007, you wrote:
>~~~ On 2007/01/07 16:12, Dale Raby at daleraby@gmail.com wrote ~~~
>
>
>I reluctantly say this, but I'm in agreement with most of what Dale has
>written, even though my own leanings are against capitalism. But although
>I'm writing from a different perspective, most of my conclusions are the
>same or at least similar.
>
>It's all well and good talking about this kind of the thing from the
>perspective of those who will profit, if not benefit, from being the takers,
>but from the standpoint of the "takees", it still looks more like theft.
>
>Even the word "abandonware" could be seen as a handy bit of casuistry rather
>than as a name for anything real. Someone has suggested that the "real
>question" should become ""Is Hiroshi's WaveLAN driver abandonware...?" I'm
>still inclined to think the real question remains "Is Hiroshi's WaveLAN
>driver *his*?"

*his*

Good point. As you can read at
http://www.kallisys.com/newton/morewifi/en, the Hiroshi's driver is
probably based on an opensource code so his rights to sell the driver
(without a source) can be questionable...

Milan

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