Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:41:49 -0700 | From | jmerkey@ns1 ... | Subject | Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario |
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Welcome to reality.
Jeff
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 07:34:01PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 18:26 +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote: > > On Monday 05 December 2005 10:52, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > > > a hypothetical doomsday scenario by Arjan van de Ven > > > > > > > Can I ask what prompted your post? > > I got one too many hatemails from a "nvidia fanboy" who blamed me for > just about anything wrong in the world.... I fear that most of these > people have no idea why open source drivers matter, or at least what the > consequences are for not caring about drivers being open or not. > > > > > > > > > > On December 6th, 2005 the kernel developers en mass decide that binary > > > modules are legally fine and also essential for the progress of linux, > > > > Has anyone (influential) actually being toying with this idea? I hope not, but > > if they are, I'd like to know who to lobby... > > this part of the "story" is fiction. A lot of the rest is not. There are > already several servers that you can only use with binary modules.. > modules only available in full binary form for RHEL and SLES kernels for > example. > > - > 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/ - 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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