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On Tuesday 06 December 2005 03:18, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 04:18:51AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > The December 6 event is extraordinarily unlikely. What's vastly more > > likely is consistent "erosion" over time. First the 3D video drivers, > > then the wireless network drivers, then the fakeraid drivers, and so on. > > I agree about the erosion. > > I am convinced that the only way to stop the erosion is to totally stop > buying hardware that has only binary only drivers (unless you buy it to > create an open source driver or to reverse engineer the binary only > driver of course! ;). I'm afraid there is not enough Linux users in desktop/laptop market for vendors to notice. How about refusing binary-only modules instead? I mean, maybe if Linux will stop being lax about GPL requirements on modules. -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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