Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932179AbWIYO1G (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:27:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932180AbWIYO1G (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:27:06 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:8897 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932179AbWIYO1E (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:27:04 -0400 Subject: Re: GPLv3 Position Statement From: Lee Revell To: Neil Brown Cc: Michiel de Boer , James Bottomley , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <17687.46268.156413.352299@cse.unsw.edu.au> References: <1158941750.3445.31.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <451798FA.8000004@rebelhomicide.demon.nl> <17687.46268.156413.352299@cse.unsw.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:27:27 -0400 Message-Id: <1159194447.2899.66.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 968 Lines: 21 On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 20:51 +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > Tolerance of binary blogs seems to be steadily dropping. > > As far as I can tell, the DVD-CSS is purely a legal issue today - the > technical issues are solved (I can watch any-region on my Linux > computer, and in Australia, the law requires that all DVD players must > ignore region encoding as it is an anti-competitive practice). Tolerance by who? As far as I can tell tolerance for binary blobs by the typical Linux desktop user is higher than ever. They consider it a bug if their distro does not automagically install the nvidia/ATI drivers, and immediately write you off as a GPL zealot if you even mention that a tainted kernel cannot be debugged. 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/