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["J. Scott Thayer, M.D." <docscott@xxxxxxx>]

If it were made illegal it would only egg me on! I'm a child of the 60's; 
power to the people :-)


> On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 08:18:53AM -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > "full source available"  is never going to happen for most of the
> > hardware we currently operateor future hardware.  Deal with that thought!
> >
> > Either linux finds a way to allow use of proprietary code or it dies.
>
> If that was the case, Linux should have died years ago - all that blob
> stuff really only came into the picture during the last few years, while
> Linux started gaining pace at least in the server rooms even before that.
> So, no, Linux won't die without proprietary code. Linux can only die if
> there are no people left developping for it - or if it is made illegal
> (and even then I have my doubts).
>
> Cheerio,
>
> Thomas

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