On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:54:37 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
I didn't say that. I said the Linux developers are zealous in their attitude toward free software.
Then I'll rephrase: please tell me why you think that that attitude is zealous. I just want to understand.
It's an opinion. You don't have to agree. But their attitude towards hardware and software vendors that don't share their philosophy of free software is religious and generally counterproductive.
Ah yes, so forcing Linksys and other companies to make the sources of their Linux firmware open is counterproductive? Only the GPL gave the lever to do that.
while a handful of Linux kernel developers make life difficult for very many end users and hinder wider adoption of Linux by excluding non-GPL and binary-only drivers from distributions.
It's not only the Linux kernel developers using the GPL. GCC, binutils, findutils, shellutils and glibc all use the GPL (just to name a few). Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org