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Making Hardware Vendors Love Open Source

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Sam Varghese
Jan 30, 2008

“Reverse-engineering open source drivers for hardware devices
will only reduce the pressure on manufacturers to provide such
drivers, Dirk Hohndel told an audience at the Australian national
Linux conference today.

“Hohndel, who works for Intel as the chief of technology for
Linux and open source, spoke on the topic ‘Make hardware vendors
love open source…'”

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