Andreas Jaeger schrieb: > Siegbert Baude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Andreas Jaeger schrieb:
>>> My *personal* opinion on these drivers is explained here: >>> >>> http://www.novell.com/coolblogs/?p=489 >> Cited from there: >> In my personal opinion you cannot talk about open source without talking >> about freedom of choice. [..]I would like everybody to have at least the >> same choice with kernel drivers - the chance to run an open source >> driver on all of your hardware. >> So may I add that, if I understand the participants of this discussion >> correctly, all is wanted is that Novell leaves this choice to the users? > What *I* (this is my blog entry and not representing official > Novell policy as all Coolblogs) say is that I would like to have the > chance to run open source drivers! I understood this, I just used your argument the other way round. Admitted, as mall provocation, but no harm intended. :-) >> And for me this means binary modules have to be distributed within SUSE, >> otherwise you buy the CD set and have no choice at all without Internet >> access, which still is something not everybody in the world has. > You can still run the provided drivers, you will miss 3d support for > Nvidia. The right alternative would be to provide open source > drivers that support the hardware completely, Everbody agrees in that. Let's hope that future will bring this. But until then SUSE is about caring for users, which means giving *them* the choice by still distributing what they need to use their hardware. To the legal implications see my other mail just published. Ciao Siegbert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
