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Message-ID: <20061221174346.GN3073@harddisk-recovery.com> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:43:46 +0100 From: Erik Mouw <erik@...ddisk-recovery.com> To: Scott Preece <sepreece@...il.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, Tomas Carnecky <tom@...ervice.com>, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, James Porter <jameslporter@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Binary Drivers On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 10:33:10AM -0600, Scott Preece wrote: > (b) "Thank you for requesting a driver to support our hardware on > Linux. Unfortunately, we don't have time either to provide such a > driver or write the documentation that would allow you do so. The > Linux market is not big enough to justify the legal and technical > expense involved. However, we can provide you with this binary driver > that we believe will allow you to use the hardware in your system, > just as we provide binary drivers for other hardware platforms." You forgot to add: "However, we thought the legal and technical expense involved in writing this binary driver and possibly violating the Linux kernel copyright was well spend." My 0.02 EUR. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - 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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