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Message-Id: <200612230104.kBN14aIg016834@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:04:36 -0300 From: "Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@....utfsm.cl> To: davids@...master.com cc: "Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Binary Drivers David Schwartz <davids@...master.com> wrote: [...] > Honestly, I think it *is* wrong to sell someone a physical product and then > not tell them how to make it work. Right. And the driver *is* the "information to make it work", in a convenient package. [...] > How would you feel if you bought a car and then discovered that the > manufacturer had welded the hood shut? How many people still do their own > oil changes anyway? If people don't do this, what sense does it make to tell them how to do it anyway? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 - 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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