linux-kernel - Re: GPLv3 Position Statement

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Date:	Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:27:27 -0400
From:	Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com>
To:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc:	Michiel de Boer <x@...elhomicide.demon.nl>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: GPLv3 Position Statement

On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 20:51 +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> Tolerance of binary blogs seems to be steadily dropping.
> 
> As far as I can tell, the DVD-CSS is purely a legal issue today - the
> technical issues are solved (I can watch any-region on my Linux
> computer, and in Australia, the law requires that all DVD players must
> ignore region encoding as it is an anti-competitive practice). 

Tolerance by who?  As far as I can tell tolerance for binary blobs by
the typical Linux desktop user is higher than ever.  They consider it a
bug if their distro does not automagically install the nvidia/ATI
drivers, and immediately write you off as a GPL zealot if you even
mention that a tainted kernel cannot be debugged.

Lee

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