Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932191AbVIEEM6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 00:12:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932192AbVIEEM6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 00:12:58 -0400 Received: from simmts12.bellnexxia.net ([206.47.199.141]:48538 "EHLO simmts12-srv.bellnexxia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932191AbVIEEM5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 00:12:57 -0400 Message-ID: <50570.10.10.10.10.1125893576.squirrel@linux1> In-Reply-To: <20050905040311.29623.qmail@web50204.mail.yahoo.com> References: <35547.10.10.10.10.1125892279.squirrel@linux1> <20050905040311.29623.qmail@web50204.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 00:12:56 -0400 (EDT) Subject: re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS From: "Sean" To: "Alex Davis" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4-2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1624 Lines: 38 On Mon, September 5, 2005 12:03 am, Alex Davis said: > > What if you don't have a choice? When someone comes to me with their > laptop > containing a built-in wireless card not natively supported by Linux, am I > supposed to tell them "go buy a Linux-supported card" when there's a way > I can make their existing card work? I don't think so. You always have a choice in life. Nobody is stopping you from doing what _you_ choose to do. That doesn't mean that developers who are concerned with the creation and promotion of open source should care one whit about your particular take on the situation. Go do whatever you want just don't expect the open source developers to pay for it; you maintain the crufty patches yourself. If you want to see the stupidity of your argument imagine someone going to Microsoft and saying... "look, if you'd simply stop charging for MS Windows more people would embrace it!" Do you think therefore microsoft should stop charging for Windows??? What if I wrote an email to them and said... "A friend of mine brings me his laptop to install Windows on it, but he can't afford a copy of Windows!!!" Do you think they should stop charging for Windows to help you out?? Get real. Please just do whatever you want and stop hoping that open source developers will ever care about your choice to embrace binary-only drivers. Cheers, Sean - 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/