Messages in this thread | | | From | Matthieu CASTET <> | Subject | Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario | Date | Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:24:42 +0100 |
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Le Mon, 05 Dec 2005 11:52:32 +0100, Arjan van de Ven a écrit :
> Linux in a binary world > > > What if.. what if the linux kernel developers tomorrow accept that > binary modules are OK and are essential for the progress of linux. > [...] > Now this scenario may sound unlikely to you. And thankfully the main > assumption (the December 6th event) is extremely unlikely. > > However, and this unfortunately, several of the other "leaps" aren't > that unlikely. In fact, some of these results are likely to happen > regardless; witness the flamewars on lkml about breaking module API/ABI. > Witness the ndiswrapper effect of vendors now saying "we support linux > because ndiswrapper can use our windows driver". I hope they won't > happen. Some of that hope will be idle hope, but I believe that the > advantages of freedom in the end are strong enough to overcome the > counter forces. And some embedded companies provide the minimal source code to put in arch and everything else (ethernet, adsl, wifi, ...) is binaries modules.
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