[linux-dvb] Re: Kernel OOPS

[Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>]

On Tuesday 09 March 2004 02:25, Ralph Metzler wrote:
> Oliver Endriss writes:
>  > Great. So there are no license/patent issues which might prevent writing
>  > an open-source driver. I wonder why nobody has done this before.
>  > The hardware has been available for some time.
> 
> I thought about supporting the Nova CI a year ago, even disassembled
> the CI interface routines at the time, but then thought: why bother 
> supporting TT if they make it so hard for Linux programmers?
> 
> KNC released the specs (no begging and/or disassembling necessary ...)
> but the code we wrote is currently bound to a commercial project. It
> works since almost a year (at least with the modules without hardware 
> problems).

Maybe some competitors could pay Andrew and Robert for _not_ writing
a driver? SCNR.

Oliver



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