On 3/14/07, Gordon JC Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
