[linux-audio-dev] BDI (Was: Getting out of the software game)

On 2007-03-14 18:32 +0100, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:

> We all know the bad sides of binary drivers, but at the end it's
> simply this: rejecting a BDI takes away some of the users'
> freedom.

Problem is, accepting a BDI also takes away some of the users'
freedom.

If you make it possible for hardware vendors to get away with
closed-source drivers, that's what they'll do. And that's what
they'll keep doing forever because the incentive for opening their
drivers has changed from "selling my hardware to Linux users" to
"selling my hardware to Linux users who are libre software
purists". The first group is growing fast enough to become
commercially significant. The second is not.

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