[GNUz] ndiswrapper - licences...

[Steve Holdoway]

Which network cards were you using? Personally, I'd throw them as far as possible if they need this. New ones aren't very dear, and I'm sure you can get a decent old one, like a 3c509 for well under a tenner.

Steve

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:01:54 +1200
Don Gould <don@bowenvale.co.nz> wrote:

> Following on from the general discussion on cc's open status.
> 
> What are peoples views on ndiswrapper?
> 
> Drivers are written by manufactures based on code from chip suppliers 
> for xp os then used by ndis.
> 
> Neil and I used ndis this afternoon to get new nics up and running with 
> in minutes.  We didn't have to track down drivers for the chip sent.
> 
> It got us functional but are we still floss?
> 
> Personally I'm good with this as I wasn't being asked to pay money to a 
> third party just to use my system.  Thou I guess the card manufacture 
> did pay money to the chip manufactures.
> 
> Thoughts welcomed.
> 
> 
> Cheers Don
> 
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