linux-kernel - Re: Binary Drivers

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Message-ID: <458ADC37.9070608@dbservice.com>
Date:	Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:10:47 +0000
From:	Tomas Carnecky <tom@...ervice.com>
To:	Erik Mouw <erik@...ddisk-recovery.com>
CC:	Scott Preece <sepreece@...il.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	James Porter <jameslporter@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Binary Drivers

Erik Mouw wrote:
> 
> "However, we thought the legal and technical expense involved in
>  writing this binary driver and possibly violating the Linux kernel
>  copyright was well spend."
> 

So Microsoft is right, the legal status of Linux software _is_ unclear. 
You just gave them every reason to continue their campaign against 
Linux. <Don't use Linux, its legal status is unclear, you may get sued>.

The problem is, nobody wants to decide what to do with closed source 
software in Linux. I don't care how you decide, for or against binary 
drivers (well, actually I do but my opinion doesn't matter), just decide 
already!

tom
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