Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 07:40:59AM -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Thursday 01 June 2006 02:31, Per Jessen wrote:
> > James Knott wrote:
> > >> As to whether the GPL vs non-GPL drivers issue will prevent Linux
> > >> from becoming mainstream, I'm not so sure.  Very large European
> > >> public administrations have already gone Linux - perhaps it's not
> > >> mainstream, but very impressive nonetheless.
> > >
> > > It's a problem if it makes it impossible to use commonly available
> > > hardware.
> >
> > I agree it's a problem, but that's not the same as preventing Linux from
> > mainstream - whatever that means.
> >
> 
> Ok, I used the term 'mainstream'.   Let's replace that usage with the phrase 
> 'more popular  or more used'.   In otherwords, if hardware isn't supported 
> then no one will want to or *can* use the software. 
> 
> Now, if the kernel developers come up with a common and well-defined interface 
> for proprietary modules and make it well known to the hardware vendors, then 
> overall that would be a Good Thang (tm).  I guess that is their plan but it 
> seems they jumped the gun a bit and have made the situation worse in the 
> short-term.

The actual way to go is to get rid of proprietary modules.

I really wonder why some people want them and not OSS drivers...

Ciao, Marcus

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