Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964958AbXBOH2x (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:28:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964965AbXBOH2x (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:28:53 -0500 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.238]:23805 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964958AbXBOH2w (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:28:52 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JsYhT9MhGQt2lztBH2PtESXqGnhuVOcI5oewLZLxRcaER4Aq6g+ImFowApItpistvSvJwc+QWtMJKEUzMKJvdxkHuGIkac4xpemy188dhMQFyNb58VPi+nVKTYfN/5S5s2OsNCsoJCbSbnLetSnM08U2y20sZguFEZF7sJpyjdM= Message-ID: <9b3a62ab0702142328h87365b6i932d4f2c117f7f0e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:28:51 -0800 From: "v j" To: "Randy Dunlap" Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers Cc: "Dave Jones" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070214231143.11ff6b46.rdunlap@xenotime.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9b3a62ab0702142115m4ea7d2c0m6869eb64ef3ee14e@mail.gmail.com> <9b3a62ab0702142116n4069e16cl1bc8f546f41d935@mail.gmail.com> <20070215061149.GE15654@redhat.com> <9b3a62ab0702142227j19386132s870a0e745cfbb8d1@mail.gmail.com> <20070214231143.11ff6b46.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1054 Lines: 24 On 2/14/07, Randy Dunlap wrote: > At least one of us is confused about that an embedded User is. > It seems to me that you are an embedded developer, not User. > I doubt that most Embedded Users care what their OS is, > or even know what an OS is. I am not sure what the difference is. We are trying to use Linux to support our application. It may be that Linux has a bug, or our application. When it is Linux, that has the problem, I have tried to inform the community of that. > > > Not everybody has to be a contributor. The reason Linux is popular is > > because of its openness. Take that away and see where it goes. > > We seem to have different definitions of open and closed. Open = 3rd party Linux drivers can be loaded. Closed = No third party Linux drivers can be loaded. - 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/