Andreas Jaeger schrieb:
Siegbert Baude
writes: Andreas Jaeger schrieb:
My *personal* opinion on these drivers is explained here:
Cited from there: In my personal opinion you cannot talk about open source without talking about freedom of choice. [..]I would like everybody to have at least the same choice with kernel drivers - the chance to run an open source driver on all of your hardware.
So may I add that, if I understand the participants of this discussion correctly, all is wanted is that Novell leaves this choice to the users?
What *I* (this is my blog entry and not representing official Novell policy as all Coolblogs) say is that I would like to have the chance to run open source drivers!
I understood this, I just used your argument the other way round. Admitted, as mall provocation, but no harm intended. :-)
And for me this means binary modules have to be distributed within SUSE, otherwise you buy the CD set and have no choice at all without Internet access, which still is something not everybody in the world has.
You can still run the provided drivers, you will miss 3d support for Nvidia. The right alternative would be to provide open source drivers that support the hardware completely,
Everbody agrees in that. Let's hope that future will bring this. But until then SUSE is about caring for users, which means giving *them* the choice by still distributing what they need to use their hardware. To the legal implications see my other mail just published. Ciao Siegbert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org