Am Mittwoch, 14. März 2007 15:21 schrieb Lee Revell:
> Binary drivers make the kernel impossible to debug,
That's an exaggerated statement. I would accept "harder" though. ;)
> 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?
Not Linux' stability might suffer, but what you fear is that its reputation
could do.
CU
Christian
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