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Message-ID: <m2r6wvusng.fsf@vador.mandriva.com> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:13:23 +0200 From: Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@...driva.com> To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@....org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper David Weinehall <tao@....umu.se> writes: > > > Personally I feel that no matter if they are legal or not, we > > > should not cater to such drivers in the first place. If it's > > > trickier to use Windows API-drivers under Linux than to write a > > > native Linux driver, big deal... We don't want Windows-drivers. > > > We want native drivers. > > > > Neither taint nor _GPL are intended to stop people doing things > > that, in the eyes of the masses, are stupid. The taint mark is > > there to ensure that they don't harm the rest of us. The FSF view > > of freedom is freedom to modify not freedom to modify in a manner > > approved by some defining body. > > Hence my use of the world "Personally". It's my own opinion that we > shouldn't support Windows API-drivers. I don't think this has > anything to do with the FSF view on freedom. This has to do with > the freedom to make a sound technical decision. and your freedom to do whatever you want at home isn't restricted by the tainting. - 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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