On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 16:00 +0100, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> 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.
When kernel hackers aren't allowed to hack the kernel, quality of it
obviously goes down.
Not "might" - does.
-DR-
Received on Thu Mar 15 04:15:05 2007
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