Hi,
On Sat, 13 May 2006, Mark Hellman wrote:
Marcel Hilzinger wrote:
Linux will never increase its desktop market share with that kind of
mentality. That's for sure.
It is a matter of principle. You (the "desktop market") simply have to
respect that in the first place.
Linux itself is a matter of principle. Market is important, but has to
build upon the basic principles, not besides (away) from them.
And SUSE/Novell will help those non-aware or non-respecting hardware
vendors to "find in", offering the kmp interface and supporting every
single vendor to adapt it.
Running binary drivers from ATI or Nvidia on servers seems a bad idea for
me. But I guess we do not have the same definition of server.
It's not graphics drivers. It's modems and ISDN cards drivers that are
commonly needed on some servers (hylafax servers, for example). And with
the AVM drivers removal, kernel security updates require manual
intervention.
This housewife-like granting is just wasted.
But the whole story is more about the work of the kernel developers,
debugging closed source drivers instead of writing open source ones etc.
Kernel developers are not and never were supposed to debug closed source
drivers. That is the responsability of the closed source drivers
publishers. Period. We all thought this matter was solved years and years
ago. It is very unfortunate that Novell took this step back without, at
least, giving a clear justification to its users.
"Tainting", polluting the kernel and the system is the matter.
I guess you have totally misunderstood the severity.
Microsoft may "halloween" the protocols, but no commercial vendor the
Linux kernel.
And indeed, the market position of Novell gives the best chance to help'em
all in.
Cheers -e
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Eberhard Moenkeberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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