On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 08:20 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 00:02, Ken Schneider wrote:
Now this idea of removing all this non-GPL stuff.... what was gained by that? And that is a Novell-only decision, right?
Actually it was the kernel devs that dictated it, they didn't ask it to be so they made it mandatory.
Then how in heck is Linux ever going to become a mainstream operating system when the kernel can't have proprietary code hung off of it and the vendors aren't that interested in developing proprietary code to begin with? Where do they think this is going to lead?
DLL's anyone?
I don't like it and for that one reason I will _NOT_ update my desktop system anytime soon. There is work being done to provide OEMs with tools so they can provide drivers for their products that will work in "user space". How well this will work is beyond me. It may turn out that there will no longer be any "SUSE" kernels and there will only be the ones released by the kernel devs. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998