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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Adam J Richter wrote:
>>        Alan Cox (lots of stuff), Andre Hedrik (IDE), Rik van Riel
>> (VM) and William Lee Irwin (NUMA) are substantial contributors.  I'm [...]

On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 04:34:23AM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> 	Just to clarify, I didn't mean to imply that Andre, Rik and
> William were opposed to the idea of allowing proprietary modules at
> least if they call through a set of defined interfaces.  Andre and Rik
> seem to be in favor of it.  I don't think I've seen a statement from
> wli about it.

I don't have any objection to proprietary modules in themselves, but
I'm quite willing to criticize irresponsible vendors of the things
causing problems for their users and mainline developers.


Bill
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