On 6/1/06, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@bmarsh.com> 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 -- 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