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Message-ID: <9b3a62ab0702142227j19386132s870a0e745cfbb8d1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:27:10 -0800 From: "v j" <vj.linux@...il.com> To: "Dave Jones" <davej@...hat.com>, "v j" <vj.linux@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers On 2/14/07, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 09:16:28PM -0800, v j wrote: > > Welcome to three months ago. > Here in the future, this was deemed a non-issue. > However this does highlight another problem. > End-users who take linux for use in embedded systems (especially) > tend to live in their own little world rarely contributing anything > back to upstream, popping up occasionally when months after decisions > have been made on things. Remind me again why we should care about > your out of tree binary only modules ? You are right. I have not contributed anything to Linux. Except one small patch to the MTD code. However, I don't think that is the point here. I am perfectly willing to live with the way Linux is today. I am telling you as a user that if Linux continues on the current path it will become less and less attractive to Embedded Users. Not everybody has to be a contributor. The reason Linux is popular is because of its openness. Take that away and see where it goes. - 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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