On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 09:28 -0500, Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:56, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
Fine. Then start writing all of the rest of the drivers that are non-gpl so that current and future users don't loose functionality and can use new and better hardware when it comes out. Keep in mind that perhaps over 95% of the users of linux distributions are -NOT- programmers. Oh and I -DO- appreciate all of your hard work. Perhaps it -IS- time to start looking at BSD.
I find it amazing how so many out there feel its the responsibility of the *kernel* developers to support so much hardware out of the box.
Blame the companies, not the devs!!
NO. Blame the devs when -they- tell the companies they cannot provide -nothing- but open source drivers. Are you saying the companies have -no- right to their IP? It is the devs that need to work with the companies to provide proper closed source drivers. And let have back the non-gpl package we have had in the past. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998