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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 06:46:49 +0100
From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Felipe Alfaro Solana <lkml@mac.com>,
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Subject: Re: starting with 2.7
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On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:14:42PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Gosh! I bought an ATI video card, I bought a VMware license, etc.... I 
> > want to keep using them. Changing a "stable" kernel will continuously 
> > annoy users and vendors.
> 
> So buy some Operating System that supports the propritary software of
> your choice but stop annoying us.

That's what he did. But it was not written in the notice that it could stop
working at any time :-)

Willy