Messages in this thread | | | From | Luke-Jr <> | Subject | Re: [future of drivers?] a proposal for binary drivers. | Date | Thu, 9 Mar 2006 15:09:04 +0000 |
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On Wednesday 08 March 2006 09:35, Anshuman Gholap wrote: > 1) The people who have control over linux kernel as of now are > countable on hands but cannot be held countable for work cause they do > it as hobby/"insert anything which says working for free", now for a > peice of code like linux kernel, such kind of aloofness regarding > manpower and kind_of nazism in not allowing others to dynamically > get_work_done (like binary driver) seems totally wrong.
Binary drivers are no more "work" than robbing a bank is. It is making a profit through cheating people, which is of course what is truly wrong.
> 2) there are two possibilities here, a) linus and co can gather in a > building pay all intellects and allow fast driver developments, b) > allow binary drivers to work with linux kernel dynamically(with their > own license what they choose).
Or Linux can remain GPL'd, which prohibits binary drivers *legally*, and back this by keeping a non-stable API which prohibits binary drivers *technically*.
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