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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 05:23:52 +0200 From: David Weinehall <tao@....umu.se> To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@....org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:58:38PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Mer, 2006-10-25 am 23:33 +0200, ysgrifennodd David Weinehall: > > 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. Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <tao@....umu.se> /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Full colour fire (/ - 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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