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On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:24:42AM +0100, Matthieu CASTET wrote: > > 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. Provide a one time source drop to show what good GPL citizen they are, then let it rot away making sure the average user will have to pay their bill ... Ralf - 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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