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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:05:10 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de> To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com> cc: Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, 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 >> 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. It may be can [be debugged], but it is not going to be much fun. These people just don't realize the question what they would do if the same [segfault] happened on their Windows box. Support is not always guaranteed from companies unless taking the more pricy support. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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