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. -- André Majorel <URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/> Do not use this account for regular correspondence. See the URL above for contact information.
