Re: Linus Speaks About KDE-Bashing

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sun, 12 Jul 1998 09:51:50 -0300

In message <199807120623.QAA14836@vindaloo.atnf.CSIRO.AU>, Richard Gooch
writes
:
+-----
| > list, because of the implications the logic involved has for someone
| > who wants to re-implement part of the kernel, sell it, yet keep the
| > source to themselves.
| Erm, no. It only belongs here if someone was going to bugger the
| kernel this way. No-one was suggesting to do that: Alan was only
| drawing an analogy, he wasn't seriously proposing it. Hence this
| thread is irrelevant to the kernel list.
+--->8

This situation was resolved with respect to the kernel years ago, with
respect to manufacturers wanting to provide proprietary (.o-only) drivers
for the kernel (multiport boards, if I remember correctly).

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