From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
To: Marc Boucher <marc@linuxant.com>, Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@rogers.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:18:37 +0200
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On Friday 30 of April 2004 04:15, Marc Boucher wrote:
> Dear Sean,
>
> On Apr 29, 2004, at 7:55 PM, Sean Estabrooks wrote:
> > Perhaps others on this list are getting as tired as I am of your using
> > the term "religious bias" as a negative connotation against people who
> > support and protect the open source nature of Linux.   Maybe you could
> > at least pretend to respect the people who you supposedly apologized
> > to.
>
> I not only highly respect Rusty but have closely worked and been
> friends with him for several years. The same applies to several other
> kernel developers.
>
> Please don't get me wrong. We are entirely for the open-source nature
> of Linux, and I have been personally contributing for the last 15 years
> to many open-source projects (for examples, see the AUTHORS section of
> "man iptables", or search google for my previous email addresses
> marc@mbsi.ca & marc@cam.org to get more historical background).

Well, people change over time.  8)

from http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/

"DriverLoader technology is the ideal Linux solution to support devices for
 which no adequate native open-source drivers are available. It also allows
 vendors to drastically reduce time to market or eliminate the need to support
 multiple drivers for Windows and Linux. By using the same driver on both
 platforms, significant resources can be saved."

Rusty was right.

Regards,
Bartlomiej

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