Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:16:08 -0400 | From | Ben Collins <> | Subject | Re: Non-GPL modules |
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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?
Ben
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