Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751910AbWCIWGF (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 17:06:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751791AbWCIWGF (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 17:06:05 -0500 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:5554 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751764AbWCIWGD (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 17:06:03 -0500 Subject: Re: [future of drivers?] a proposal for binary drivers. From: Lee Revell To: Dave Neuer Cc: Phillip Susi , Luke-Jr , Anshuman Gholap , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <161717d50603091330j61850529xcd50382a55ccb6b3@mail.gmail.com> References: <200603091509.06173.luke@dashjr.org> <441057D4.6030304@cfl.rr.com> <161717d50603090933o3df190f9vb1e06b0ec37deb8e@mail.gmail.com> <44108CCB.9080709@cfl.rr.com> <161717d50603091330j61850529xcd50382a55ccb6b3@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:06:00 -0500 Message-Id: <1141941960.13319.79.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.92 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 809 Lines: 18 On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 16:30 -0500, Dave Neuer wrote: > At any rate, at the moment I'm getting paid software, not for legal > analysis which I'm not qualified to give. I'm certainly not getting > paid enough to sue anyone, so unless some other kernel hacker or > company is planning on initiating a lawsuit (to which I'd happily > join) it's fairly moot, and I'll let it drop at that. I would think a lawsuit hasn't happened because it would be more productive to work with these vendors to move the parts of the driver that must remain closed to userspace. Lee - 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/