Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:15:44 +0200 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: Non-GPL modules |
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Ben Collins wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 07:02:08PM +0200, Martin Dalecki wrote: > > > > > > Review of the driver source-code by a competent hardware designer, > > > who knows how to read code, will give away the trade secret. Then > > > anybody, who hasn't bothered to invest the millions of dollars of > > > Engineering development cost, can make one of these cheaper and > > > put us out of business. > > > > And what about the simple fact that the tainted flag will become > > entierly useless when in fact most of us will be using tainted > > kernel? Hey anyway most of us are now deploying "tainted" linux > > distributions anyway and NOT GNU/Linux Debian. Most of use use > > distros and kernels far away from the official Linus kernel too, so > > this flagging doesn't help anybody it's just BLOAT. > > So you think it is the responsibility of the l-k hackers to field bugs > against highly hacked and forked versions of the kernel from a distro > that you use?
Of course not, I never said that. But introducting this stiupid tagging wan't help them anyway... so why do they introduce it? The same solution applys as ever - just say: "We don't care about kernels different from anything on ftp.kernel.org." and let it be... I really see no advantage in this tagging. It's a common trap in the western world to beleve that the introduction of some "anti law" is actually preventing "voilence" from happenning. - 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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