Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750766AbWIYTHo (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:07:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751499AbWIYTHo (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:07:44 -0400 Received: from emailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.24]:57055 "EHLO emailer.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750766AbWIYTHo (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:07:44 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:05:10 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Lee Revell cc: Neil Brown , Michiel de Boer , James Bottomley , linux-kernel Subject: Re: GPLv3 Position Statement In-Reply-To: <1159194447.2899.66.camel@mindpipe> Message-ID: References: <1158941750.3445.31.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <451798FA.8000004@rebelhomicide.demon.nl> <17687.46268.156413.352299@cse.unsw.edu.au> <1159194447.2899.66.camel@mindpipe> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1215 Lines: 27 >> 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. It may be can [be debugged], but it is not going to be much fun. These people just don't realize the question what they would do if the same [segfault] happened on their Windows box. Support is not always guaranteed from companies unless taking the more pricy support. Jan Engelhardt -- - 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/