From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
To: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>, hzhong@cisco.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 22:14:35 +0200
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On Friday 30 of April 2004 20:47, Timothy Miller wrote:
> Hua Zhong wrote:
> > Linuxant did a wrong thing by working around the warning message, but I
> > don't think it's fair to accuse of their business because they allow
> > binary drivers run on Linux.

IMHO open-source drivers are one of the biggest advantages of Linux.

Linuxant seems to be using double standards: we are all for open-source OS but
_our_ drivers have to remain proprietary (I don't care about reasons here).

Marc, I _appreciate_ all your hard-work on open-source projects and I can
understand reasons why Linuxant makes it's drivers but please, be honest. :)
I think that you agree that things like HSF drivers or DriverLoader
(because they are workarounds not the real solution) _may_ slow down creation
of real open-source drivers.

I also hope that this '\0' issue won't scare you from working with
community in the future.

Regards,
Bartlomiej

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