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    SubjectRe: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario
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    Le Mon, 05 Dec 2005 11:52:32 +0100, Arjan van de Ven a écrit :

    > Linux in a binary world
    >
    >
    > What if.. what if the linux kernel developers tomorrow accept that
    > binary modules are OK and are essential for the progress of linux.
    >
    [...]
    > Now this scenario may sound unlikely to you. And thankfully the main
    > assumption (the December 6th event) is extremely unlikely.
    >
    > However, and this unfortunately, several of the other "leaps" aren't
    > that unlikely. In fact, some of these results are likely to happen
    > regardless; witness the flamewars on lkml about breaking module API/ABI.
    > Witness the ndiswrapper effect of vendors now saying "we support linux
    > because ndiswrapper can use our windows driver". I hope they won't
    > happen. Some of that hope will be idle hope, but I believe that the
    > advantages of freedom in the end are strong enough to overcome the
    > counter forces.
    And some embedded companies provide the minimal source code to put
    in arch and everything else (ethernet, adsl, wifi, ...) is binaries
    modules.

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