linux-kernel - Re: Binary Drivers

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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

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