OpenBSD has always had a policy against binary drivers.
The reason it's "hard to get binary drivers" is because hardware manufacturers have no incentive to release documentation for their hardware, because they know they can get away with a binary driver for Linux. Then they call themselves "Linux friendly" and people like you get the wool pulled over your eyes (until you encounter a bug, or work on the kernel, or want to use FreeBSD, or suddenly find that your hardware isn't supported on Linux 2.6.xyz, etc, etc)
Even if they were to write Free Software drivers themselves, it's likely they wouldn't make it into Linux anyway because of quality issues (most driver code is shit). Community-developed drivers are frequently better quality.
Arguing that Free Software drivers would be "too much code" in Linux is just idiotic. Let's just stop writing Free Software altogether because it's "too much code."
The reason it's "hard to get binary drivers" is because hardware manufacturers have no incentive to release documentation for their hardware, because they know they can get away with a binary driver for Linux. Then they call themselves "Linux friendly" and people like you get the wool pulled over your eyes (until you encounter a bug, or work on the kernel, or want to use FreeBSD, or suddenly find that your hardware isn't supported on Linux 2.6.xyz, etc, etc)
Even if they were to write Free Software drivers themselves, it's likely they wouldn't make it into Linux anyway because of quality issues (most driver code is shit). Community-developed drivers are frequently better quality.
Arguing that Free Software drivers would be "too much code" in Linux is just idiotic. Let's just stop writing Free Software altogether because it's "too much code."