Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265067AbUD3EdP (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:33:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265065AbUD3EdP (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:33:15 -0400 Received: from alt.aurema.com ([203.217.18.57]:2990 "EHLO smtp.sw.oz.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265067AbUD3EdN (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:33:13 -0400 Message-ID: <4091D6D4.8070507@aurema.com> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:32:20 +1000 From: Peter Williams Organization: Aurema Pty Ltd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz CC: Marc Boucher , Sean Estabrooks , Linus Torvalds , Paul Wagland , Rik van Riel , Timothy Miller , koke@sindominio.net, Rusty Russell , lkml - Kernel Mailing List , David Gibson Subject: Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license References: <20040429195553.4fba0da7.seanlkml@rogers.com> <3A39091E-9A4C-11D8-B83D-000A95BCAC26@linuxant.com> <200404300618.37718.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> In-Reply-To: <200404300618.37718.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2358 Lines: 55 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > 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. Why did you omit the next paragraph (which completes the story): "We have attempted to reduce the inconvenience of binary-only drivers by separating the proprietary code from the operating-system specific code. The latter is provided in source form, allowing users to install the drivers under any supported version (2.4 or later) of the Linux kernel." Peter -- Dr Peter Williams, Chief Scientist peterw@aurema.com Aurema Pty Limited Tel:+61 2 9698 2322 PO Box 305, Strawberry Hills NSW 2012, Australia Fax:+61 2 9699 9174 79 Myrtle Street, Chippendale NSW 2008, Australia http://www.aurema.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/