Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422994AbWLURnt (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:43:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422993AbWLURnt (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:43:49 -0500 Received: from dtp.xs4all.nl ([80.126.206.180]:39940 "HELO abra2.bitwizard.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1422994AbWLURns (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:43:48 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:43:46 +0100 From: Erik Mouw To: Scott Preece Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Tomas Carnecky , Alexey Dobriyan , James Porter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Binary Drivers Message-ID: <20061221174346.GN3073@harddisk-recovery.com> References: <20061215220117.GA24819@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> <4583527D.4000903@dbservice.com> <7b69d1470612210833k79c93617nba96dbc717113723@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7b69d1470612210833k79c93617nba96dbc717113723@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Harddisk-recovery.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1124 Lines: 28 On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 10:33:10AM -0600, Scott Preece wrote: > (b) "Thank you for requesting a driver to support our hardware on > Linux. Unfortunately, we don't have time either to provide such a > driver or write the documentation that would allow you do so. The > Linux market is not big enough to justify the legal and technical > expense involved. However, we can provide you with this binary driver > that we believe will allow you to use the hardware in your system, > just as we provide binary drivers for other hardware platforms." You forgot to add: "However, we thought the legal and technical expense involved in writing this binary driver and possibly violating the Linux kernel copyright was well spend." My 0.02 EUR. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - 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/