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    SubjectRe: [SEMI-OT] Potential problem for kernel developers.
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    > bugs that may be caused by closed source software.  My point
    > however is that like it or not, VMWARE is here, and is going to
    > be used by more and more people. More commercial software will

    VMware is fine. If you have any problem with vmware modules loaded, run
    a test without them and if you can't duplicate it tell vmware.

    > create a large demand for the proprietary extension or whatever,
    > and in fact lessen the number of people using "pure" kernels
    > dramatically, and thus lower the numbers of potential people who
    > would otherwise fit the "debugging is parallelizeable" paradigm.

    So if you add lots of crap to your box it falls over. Thats _your_ problem
    or your vendors problem. If you have a Red Hat kernel problem and you have
    a support deal you go demand they fix it. They sold it to you. If you don't
    you stick it in Bugzilla and they might fix it for you

    Ditto for SuSE, Mandrake and everyone else.

    There is a real incentive for vendors not to fiddle with the tree unless
    they think they know what they are doing. The resource overhead it creates
    them is significant.

    Alan


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