14 Mar
2007
14 Mar
'07
11:34 a.m.
On 3/14/07, Gordon JC Pearce <wsynth(a)gjcp.net> wrote:
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 10:21 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
I think you misread my technical statement as a political one. I
don't care about politics or the GPL, I just want Linux to be the most
stable OS, and that can't happen if secret blobs of code are allowed
to scribble all over kernel memory.
Lee
Binary drivers make the kernel impossible to
debug, and if the kernel
devs created such a DBI, vendors would stop releasing open source
drivers and pretty soon Linux would be no more stable than Windows.
Why should Linux sacrifice stability just so vendors can keep their
hardware interfaces secret?
This is exactly what I'm talking about. I *DON'T FUCKING CARE* what the
manufacturers do or don't do with their hardware interfaces. What I
*do* care about is having X break every couple of days because some
kernel update. I have neither the time nor the inclination to try and
work round other people's hangups.