On Friday 17 February 2006 14:30, Mark Hellman wrote: > ... at the expense of thousands of present and future SuSE users who, > from now on, won't be able to get their Intel and Smartlink modems, > their wireless cards, or their ISDN cards to work. The very same devices > that enable them to connect to the Internet...
Except for when there are OSS drivers available, or companies develop drivers to exist in userspace. > Some people foolish think this GPL "sharia" from the kernel folks is a > sort of social engineering to pressure manufacturers to open their > drivers code. Understand this once and for all: there have been, there > are and always will be manufacturers that don't want to open their > drivers code. It is their legitimate right to do so, and Linux must be > able to peacefully coexist with this reality. On the user perspective, > this "sharia" is just on more reason for not using SuSE... See userspace comment above. I think what you've said here was inflammatory, ridiculous, flawed, and a complete waste of time. If you're going to rant, please rant somewhere within reality, instead of sending out obviously uninformed crap. > Mark > Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
