Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:15:00 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Flame Linus to a crisp! |
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 10:43:37PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So I really want to set peoples _expectations_ right. I'd rather lose a > developer over a flame-war here on Linux-kernel as a result of this > discussion, than having somebody unhappy later on about having "wasted > their time" on a project that then allowed things to happen that that > developer felt was inherently morally _wrong_. > And this is where it touches upon kernel development. Not because I expect > to apply DRM patches in the near future or anything like that: but simply > because it's better to bring up the issue so that people know where they > stand, and not have the wrong expectations of how their code might be used > by third parties.
Well, my walking out of computing is tied to complete prevention of kernel hacking on commodity hardware, so you've not lost anything yet. I only really care if it's no longer possible to get a commodity system to run Linux on at all, not about crypto dongles.
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