Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 01 June 2006 08:06, Gaël Lams wrote:
> Binary-only drivers run at a really privileged security level which
> gives them access to anything on your system, and if they screw up it
> can be a disaster. With drivers that have full source available,
> people can see what the driver is doing and make corrections as
> required. Using binary drivers makes you dependent on the vendors who
> provide them for fixing bugs and honestly, if I moved to Linux, it's
> to avoid it.

"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.

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