Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Fri Apr 30 2004 - 15:15:17 EST


On Friday 30 of April 2004 20:47, Timothy Miller wrote:
> Hua Zhong wrote:
> > Linuxant did a wrong thing by working around the warning message, but I
> > don't think it's fair to accuse of their business because they allow
> > binary drivers run on Linux.

IMHO open-source drivers are one of the biggest advantages of Linux.

Linuxant seems to be using double standards: we are all for open-source OS but
_our_ drivers have to remain proprietary (I don't care about reasons here).

Marc, I _appreciate_ all your hard-work on open-source projects and I can
understand reasons why Linuxant makes it's drivers but please, be honest. :)
I think that you agree that things like HSF drivers or DriverLoader
(because they are workarounds not the real solution) _may_ slow down creation
of real open-source drivers.

I also hope that this '\0' issue won't scare you from working with
community in the future.

Regards,
Bartlomiej

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