Editor's Note: Defending Values
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| Pushing vendors may have gotten a few to cave and open driver
| documentation, of that I have no doubt, but I also wonder how many
| vendors would be participating as open partners if they'd been encouraged
| by the opportunity to generate more business? More, or less? I'm willing
| to bet more, but de Raadt seems to be under the impression that anyone
| dealing with free software had better automatically be free themselves.
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| And yes, in an ideal world, that would be absolutely wonderful. Butt
| hat's not why businesses make decisions. Businesses who own software
| make decisions about that software based on the rules of business, law,a
| nd common sense. Public companies are even more tightly bound by the
| legal and moral obligation to benefit shareholders.
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