Which will be a shame, but in the end, that won't work and just strengthen Micro$oft's hand in the OS market. A part of the point of Open Source is that it is...well...open. An attempt to close it to some binaries is counter productive and counter philosophical (to coin a phrase). It will splinter kernel development. We will have "Open" Open source kernels and "Restricted" Open source kernels. Charles Johnson Manager, IS Applications Phone: 463-6527 Fax: 463-6503 Help Desk: 463-6516 Remember the heroes of UAL Flight 93 >>> hosting@j2solutions.net Saturday, November 23, 2002 10:04:55 PM >>> On Saturday 23 November 2002 18:50, jdow uttered: > Indeed, he is in a position to REQUEST. He is not in a position to > demand. He is apparently too inexperienced with the world to have > learned the difference. Incidentally, Red Hat's attidude about modules > for which no source is available, such as nvidia drivers, is the same > as that of the Linux Kernel developers. If they cannot get their > fingers into the code themselves to fix what may be broken they want > nothing to do with it and indeed mark it as unfit for consumption or > at least unfit for support queries, complaints, bug reports, or even > toilet paper. Hell, if Linus had his way, the Linux kernel would _not_ run non-gpl code period. There is a big heated argument over LSM right now, where Linus is forcing a patch that keeps LSM from loading closed source modules, and thus threatening the financial stability of a few security vendors... Be glad, dear twit, that you even have ability to run closed-source modules currently. It could change, and then who would you bitch at? -- Jesse Keating For Web Services and Linux Consulting, Visit --> j2Solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
