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From: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:24:42 +0100
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Le Mon, 05 Dec 2005 11:52:32 +0100, Arjan van de Ven a ?crit?:

> Linux in a binary world
> 
> 
> What if.. what if the linux kernel developers tomorrow accept that
> binary modules are OK and are essential for the progress of linux. 
> 
[...]
> Now this scenario may sound unlikely to you. And thankfully the main
> assumption (the December 6th event) is extremely unlikely.  
> 
> However, and this unfortunately, several of the other "leaps" aren't
> that unlikely. In fact, some of these results are likely to happen
> regardless; witness the flamewars on lkml about breaking module API/ABI.
> Witness the ndiswrapper effect of vendors now saying "we support linux
> because ndiswrapper can use our windows driver". I hope they won't
> happen. Some of that hope will be idle hope, but I believe that the
> advantages of freedom in the end are strong enough to overcome the
> counter forces.
And some embedded companies provide the minimal source code to put 
in arch and everything else (ethernet, adsl, wifi, ...) is binaries
modules.

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