Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> writes:
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 03:08:40PM +0200, Susanne Oberhauser wrote:
Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@suse.de> writes:
Well, get rid of proprietary drivers is what the open source community wants ...
Sigh.
Who doesn't?
After a few years of trying ot enforce this, how about winning by numbers? for a change, first we gain the market share that we deserve. _then_ we can enforce things.
So ignore legal problems before we become big enough?
Hah, no such chance, sorry.
Remember, it's not just a legal issue: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Kernel_Driver_Statement
I share this. I relaocated my family and left my friends to work on Open Source. I've just helped Serna, a proprietary xml editor to become open source, after five years of again and again explaining the benefits. So why am I approaching it different from you? two reasons: 1. There is tons of users who happen to have one of these fine cards that need that driver for The Joy of Linux. Our ethically correct hesitance whether it's right or wrong to have this proprietary piece'cr*p in the stack not solving their problem. 2. In one sentence, the graphics driver is the dongle locking high volume high performance gaming cards from the low volume gfx workstations market. With their hat on, would I canibalize this market just to make some open source freaks like Susanne Oberhauser or Greg KH happy? Certainly not. All I say is: let's please solve that end user problem first. ATI and nVidia will, I'm sure, come up with reasonable ideas if the Linux desktop share is growing to 5%, 10%, or more. S. -- Susanne Oberhauser +49-911-74053-574 SUSE -- a Novell Business OPS Engineering Maxfeldstraße 5 Processes and Infrastructure Nürnberg SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org