On 3/14/07, Gordon JC Pearce <wsynth@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 10:21 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
>
> > Binary drivers make the kernel impossible to debug, and if the kernel
> > devs created such a DBI, vendors would stop releasing open source
> > drivers and pretty soon Linux would be no more stable than Windows.
> > Why should Linux sacrifice stability just so vendors can keep their
> > hardware interfaces secret?
>
> This is exactly what I'm talking about. I *DON'T FUCKING CARE* what the
> manufacturers do or don't do with their hardware interfaces. What I
> *do* care about is having X break every couple of days because some
> kernel update. I have neither the time nor the inclination to try and
> work round other people's hangups.
I think you misread my technical statement as a political one. I
don't care about politics or the GPL, I just want Linux to be the most
stable OS, and that can't happen if secret blobs of code are allowed
to scribble all over kernel memory.
Lee
Received on Wed Mar 14 20:15:02 2007
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