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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:05:15 +1100
From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
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Randy.Dunlap wrote:

>On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:49:05 +1100 Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote:
>
>| Neil Brown wrote:
>| 
>
>| >
>| >Ofcourse we cannot and should not stop people from providing the
>| >option of binary only drivers, but I'm not convinced that we should
>| >acknowlege that people who provide binary-only drivers are doing a
>| >useful service for anyone but themselves.
>| >
>| 
>| No I wouldn't say that, I meant the Linux Kernel is doing the end users
>| a favour by allowing binary modules.
>
>that's questionable since we can't support them (i.e. fix bugs/problems
>with them).
>


We don't, nvidia does (directly or through a distro).
We provide choice, right?


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