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-
