Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030360AbVLGVj3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 16:39:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030361AbVLGVj3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 16:39:29 -0500 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:29147 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030360AbVLGVj2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 16:39:28 -0500 Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 13:38:20 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20051207.133820.39286690.davem@davemloft.net> To: gh@us.ibm.com Cc: davej@redhat.com, geert@linux-m68k.org, arjan@infradead.org, rdunlap@xenotime.net, riel@redhat.com, andrea@suse.de, wli@holomorphy.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ogasawara@osdl.org Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: References: <20051207210246.GB22690@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2.53 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 843 Lines: 21 From: Gerrit Huizenga Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 13:30:18 -0800 > OSDL.org has no desire to advocate binary drivers in any way and I > don't expect that they will do anything to educate or influence their > members or the global vendor/IHV/developer communities to use binary > drivers. Further, I expect they will do exactly the opposite, in > particular, educate members, developers, IHV's on how to deploy > open source drivers and the benefits of doing so. You might want to read the following before stating such things: http://www.kroah.com/log/2005/11/03/#osdl_gkai Thanks. - 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/