Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751463AbVLFOgb (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 09:36:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751464AbVLFOga (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 09:36:30 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:52436 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751463AbVLFOga (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 09:36:30 -0500 Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario From: Arjan van de Ven To: Aimo Asiakas Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:36:26 +0100 Message-Id: <1133879787.4836.30.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 1.8 (+) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.0.4 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (1.8 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dynamic IP address [213.93.14.173 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] 1.7 RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL RBL: NJABL: dialup sender did non-local SMTP [213.93.14.173 listed in combined.njabl.org] X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1590 Lines: 35 > And more important we expect that the > applications we need are available for Linux. Do we care about hackers' > right to free hardware information? No. In my article I tried to explain to you why you SHOULD care. If you can get your drivers ONLY for the SLES/RHEL distros... would you be happy with that? Are you currently running RHEL or SLES? If not, why not? If you have a reason for that... then maybe you shouldn't be happy about the direction things are going either! Open drivers are NOT just for hackers. GET THAT? They are there for YOU as well. So that YOU can run whatever linux you want, not just today but also tomorrow and next month and later. Maybe you don't want to read the source code, maybe you're no programmer at all and don't know how to read it. Yet even if you use nvidia and ndiswrapper you depend on the rest of the kernel drivers to be open to run the distribution you want, and not RHEL or SLES. Maybe saying this makes me a fundamentalist GPL terrorist (as some have called me as reaction to the article I wrote). To some degree I don't care, I've been called worse. But I am hoping that people like you (and I don't mean that in any negative way) start to realize why you can run the linux you want today, and that embracing binary drivers as a good thing will threaten that ability in the future. - 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/