Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario | From | Bernd Petrovitsch <> | Date | Tue, 06 Dec 2005 01:14:43 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 15:56 -0800, Tim Bird wrote: [...] > To the larger argument about supporting binary drivers, > all Arjan manages to prove with his post is that, > if handled in the worst possible way, support for > binary drivers would be a disaster. Who can disagree > with that?
And it is the to-be-expected way for all companies/corporations/ commercial entities where none-techies are the decision makers (the condition is a sufficient one but not a necessary one) - ethics and/or fairness are pretty irrelevant there if there seems to a problem with sales, stakeholders value, bonuses of management and especially the deciders themselves etc. Yes, that may be rude. Sorry, that is reality.
In one word: It will doubtless go that way because only short-term "success" is relevant (i.e. just to get as much money as possible out of it *now*) and the devil may care ....
Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services
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