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    SubjectRe: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

    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.
    >
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