On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 09:20 -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote:
On 6/1/06, 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.
I think that is right .. linux has to find a way to accept/accomodate the use of proprietary drivers.
I don't know enough about the architecture, but is there not, in linux, a "HAL" that exists outside of the kernel? Can't the kernel "access" non-OSS driver software via a "generic" abstraction, and thus proprietarty stuff does not per-se "contaminate" the kernel/OSS material?
It just seems as though the SUSE kernel dev guys attitude "after feb 2008 we will prevent non-oss USB code from intitializing" --- is harsh, unless there is an alternative way to provide access to such hardware
Looks like a date to have another distro in the works for install. Must be nice to -think- you are a big enough distro to bully your customers. I was raised to -always- treat the customer first, the customer is -always- right no matter what. Unless you don't care about going out of business. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com