On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 23:20 +0100, devzero@xxxxxx wrote: > Unfortunately it`s closed source - would you really want to trust your data to a filesystem that is closed? To a filesystem that isn't easily supported by newer kernels (or even kernels with hot security fixes)? I at least won't. > the vendor is developing quite nice stuff for linux, but it`s understandable that he needs to live from that - so no open source. There's enough people who make money on open source.... that's not an argument. > is there any good collection of arguments to make a vendor re-think his strategy and open up the source of their application? One is to suggest him to talk to a good lawyer... often people who do binary modules come back from that white in the face and change things quickly ;) Another one is just refusing to buy from him until it's open. If everyone does that.... he'll get the message. -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
