OpenBSD creator criticizes OLPC
Last week, OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt released to the public an e-mail he sent to various developers affiliated with the OLPC project in which he criticizes the developers for signing non-disclosure agreements to gain access to documentation that describes the proprietary firmware used in the wireless networking hardware included in the OLPC prototype.
In the e-mail, de Raadt accuses the OLPC project of "work[ing] against the open source community" and engaging in "commercially expedient" activity that is "hurtful" to the open source community.
Although open source drivers are available or under active development for every component of the OLPC prototype, the unique wireless hardware included in the device requires proprietary firmware.
The problem, according to de Raadt, is that the firmware will be difficult to maintain because the documentation can't be made available to the rest of the open source community.
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