On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 23:43, Lee Revell wrote: > On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 17:32 -0500, Dave Robillard wrote: > > I'd rather not have people with this ignorant 'closed drivers = good' > > opinion turning Linux into yet another Windows. > > So Linus is ignorant, huh? Have you thought about why he allows binary > drivers? He certainly could choose not to.
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/21/141225&tid=190&tid=106 See post by slux. > > No one said they were good. I just said it was better than no support > at all, and whatever RME decides to do, they designed the hardware, it's > THEIR CHOICE. You can't expect people to respect your choice to GPL the > code you write then bitch and moan when they decide to sell their > hardware under terms that make sense to them. If you don't like it then > pardon my French but you can design your own fucking sound card. I used to share this opinion. Once. Marek
