Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753644AbWLWRay (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:30:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753651AbWLWRay (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:30:54 -0500 Received: from inti.inf.utfsm.cl ([200.1.21.155]:36506 "EHLO inti.inf.utfsm.cl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753644AbWLWRax (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:30:53 -0500 Message-Id: <200612230104.kBN14aIg016834@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> To: davids@webmaster.com cc: "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" Subject: Re: Binary Drivers In-Reply-To: Message from "David Schwartz" of "Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:50:00 -0800." X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2; nmh 1.1; XEmacs 21.5 (beta27) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:04:36 -0300 From: "Horst H. von Brand" X-Greylist: Delayed for 16:26:07 by milter-greylist-3.0 (inti.inf.utfsm.cl [200.1.21.155]); Sat, 23 Dec 2006 14:30:45 -0300 (CLST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1036 Lines: 28 David Schwartz wrote: [...] > Honestly, I think it *is* wrong to sell someone a physical product and then > not tell them how to make it work. Right. And the driver *is* the "information to make it work", in a convenient package. [...] > How would you feel if you bought a car and then discovered that the > manufacturer had welded the hood shut? How many people still do their own > oil changes anyway? If people don't do this, what sense does it make to tell them how to do it anyway? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 - 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/