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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:10:47 +0000
From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
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To: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
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Subject: Re: Binary Drivers
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Erik Mouw wrote:
> 
> "However, we thought the legal and technical expense involved in
>  writing this binary driver and possibly violating the Linux kernel
>  copyright was well spend."
> 

So Microsoft is right, the legal status of Linux software _is_ unclear. 
You just gave them every reason to continue their campaign against 
Linux. <Don't use Linux, its legal status is unclear, you may get sued>.

The problem is, nobody wants to decide what to do with closed source 
software in Linux. I don't care how you decide, for or against binary 
drivers (well, actually I do but my opinion doesn't matter), just decide 
already!

tom
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