On Saturday 22 June 2002 03:06 pm, Jordan Elver wrote: <snip, to reply to sig, already replied to anyhow ;> > Jordan Elver > http://www.jordanelver.co.uk > "testing? What's that? If it compiles, it is good, if it boots up > it is perfect." --- Linus Torvalds
That's sort'a humorous, but on the serious side... http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6152&mode=thread&order=0 During the "Birds of a Feather" (BoF) session held on the evening of June 14 [02] at the Usenix Conference, Linus Torvalds took questions about the present and future of Linux. One question came from a Linux administrator at a Very Large Company that is struggling with the issue of making a vendor's binary-only kernel modules play well with an up-to-date Linux system. "I'm a complete non-believer in binary modules", Torvalds said, reiterating what has become the conventional wisdom of the Linux-kernel mailing list and experienced Linux support people. "Most houses that use Linux a lot say that they won't support binary modules because they can't. They may work, but you're not getting the full advantage of Linux", he added. On the legal side, there is no specific exception for binary-only modules. "They're borderline legal. There's nothing in the license that says you're excused from the GPL", Torvalds said. ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` o me thinks Very Large Company == nVidia ?? Before y'all ask, yes I've got a Geforce, no I haven't even tried the NVIDIA*2960.src.rpm's with 8.3 yet..... probly won't. I use the GeF2 to power M$ Flight Sim with Winblows98. It's adequate on a 1.5+Ghz system with 512mb ram........ sort'a kind'a. I believe Linus is right tho, best way to make Linux vulnerable and suck just as bad as Micro$oft crap, is to start taint'n it with closed source binary-only quasi legal drivers and software. Not to mention the virus exposures, and breaking otherwise perfectly good apps (ie, unauditable conflicts). Like Star Office, Linmodems .... ? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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