Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: [linux-audio-dev] ISA Plug & Play support in kernel | Date | 2 Jan 1999 11:08:35 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.ABTxZZsKt1@khim.sch57.msk.ru>, Khimenko Victor <khim@sch57.msk.ru> wrote: >In <199901020813.DAA24629@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu) wrote: > >> Richard Stallman writes: > >>> 1. For Ghostscript, everything added to the non-free version >>> will appear in the free version a year later. > >> This can not happen. For many cards, NDAs would make a source >> code release illegal. The sound system must be closed-source and >> must be commercial to financially support the sole developer. > >NO ! The sound system MUST BE open-source and MUST NOT include binary-only >drivers without sources.
Nonsense. Publish the interfaces and let timid hardware vendors write binary drivers to those interfaces, and eventually they'll realize that letting developers see the programming information won't hurt them. What I want is for vendors to feel comfortable selling hardware to the Linux marketplace, and if this means that they have third-party binary only drivers for a while, that is *not* a cost.
>> It is easy for you to say we shouldn't support such hardware. > >This is what we SHOULD DO ! REALLY ! NOT support such hardware... If we could >not develop driver without signing NDA, that is. Doing otherwise will kill >Linux eventually.
Binary third-party drivers haven't killed Windows yet; all they do is create extra work for the hardware vendors, who, in the fullness of time, will realize that the Open(tm) Source(tm) fanatics actually are technically competent and can write device drivers.
>This is possible harm but this is by far MUCH LESS harm then possible >corruption of Linux. Open linux-kernel archives and take a look on discussion >about UDI -- there are was a lot of [..]
Black-helicopter style conspiracy theories.
>What about P-n-P: this is DEFINITELY not kernel task. This is belond to >userspace. If current version of tools is not clear -- change tools. Do not >pullute kernel with such crap as P-n-P ...
Nonsense; operating systems are supposed to manage resources. Card interfaces are resources.
____ david parsons \bi/ Who is actually working on putting a UDI interface into \/ 2.0.28 now. Ugh. I hate kernel hacking.
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