From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932537AbVLMIRU (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2005 03:17:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932540AbVLMIRU (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2005 03:17:20 -0500 Received: from host213-160-108-25.dsl.vispa.com ([213.160.108.25]:12523 "EHLO orac.home") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932537AbVLMIRT (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2005 03:17:19 -0500 From: Andrew Walrond To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:17:12 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20051207210246.GB22690@redhat.com> <20051207.133820.39286690.davem@davemloft.net> <439DB8F4.7020802@emc.com> In-Reply-To: <439DB8F4.7020802@emc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512130817.12206.andrew@walrond.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 12 December 2005 17:52, Ric Wheeler wrote: > > Did you also read Greg's follow up posting: > > http://www.kroah.com/log/2005/11/07#osdl_gkai2 > > where he says that he was wrong about OSDL pushing for binary drivers? > (Not that the update was a glowing review of OSDL in general ;-)) > > I agree with Gerrit - from where I sit on OSDL's DCL tech forum, I have > not seen any push for binary drivers and have seen consistent pressure > pushing towards GPL'ed only drivers. > > That position is strongly spelled out in the OSDL sponsored open drivers > page as well. > Useful. Thanks for pointing it out. Andrew Walrond