From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964950AbVLFKqy (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 05:46:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964951AbVLFKqy (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 05:46:54 -0500 Received: from CPE-24-31-244-49.kc.res.rr.com ([24.31.244.49]:4546 "EHLO tsurukikun.utopios.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964950AbVLFKqx (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 05:46:53 -0500 From: Luke-Jr To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 10:51:39 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 References: <1133779953.9356.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <84144f020512050507h3f41bfecuc9f3e13fd23fde98@mail.gmail.com> <200512051844.56838.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200512051844.56838.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Public-GPG-Key: 0xD53E9583 Public-GPG-Key-URI: http://dashjr.org/~luke-jr/myself/Luke-Jr.pgp IM-Address: luke-jr@jabber.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512061051.39844.luke-jr@utopios.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 05 December 2005 18:44, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > When this happens, vendors will just have to solve all the IP nonsense > associated with their hardware, or design hardware to be more dependent on > firmware so that largely open source drivers are more feasible for them. That just moves the problem. Now, there is yet even more concern that they should release source for the firmware. -- Luke-Jr Developer, Utopios http://utopios.org/