On Tuesday 21 February 2006 10:05, Kenneth Schneider wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 09:28 -0500, Joseph M. Gaffney wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:56, Kenneth Schneider wrote: > > > Fine. Then start writing all of the rest of the drivers that are > > > non-gpl so that current and future users don't loose functionality and > > > can use new and better hardware when it comes out. Keep in mind that > > > perhaps over 95% of the users of linux distributions are -NOT- > > > programmers. Oh and I -DO- appreciate all of your hard work. > > > Perhaps it -IS- time to start looking at BSD. > > > > I find it amazing how so many out there feel its the responsibility of > > the *kernel* developers to support so much hardware out of the box. > > > > Blame the companies, not the devs!! > > NO. Blame the devs when -they- tell the companies they cannot provide > -nothing- but open source drivers. Are you saying the companies have > -no- right to their IP? It is the devs that need to work with the > companies to provide proper closed source drivers. And let have back the > non-gpl package we have had in the past.
Are you saying the kernel devs have no right to *their* IP? The companies need to work with the developers, *as offered*, to provide closed source drivers if they wish. However, I still am of the fundamental belief that they sell *hardware*, not software, so proprietary drivers are unnecessary. However, as stated, help has been offered from the devs, and AVM has done nothing. So again, the *company*, not the devs, just said GFY, and then proceeded to whine. Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
