On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 03:03 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
btw, where are suddenly all this 'we need a fix binary abi' people are
coming
from?
Until ca 2 month ago they never spoke up, and suddenly in every forum
or mailing lists are popping up people, most of them posting for the
first time, demanding a fix ABI.
It seems to have coincided with the "Linux in a binary world (a doomsday
scenario)" thread on LKML around the same time, when some kernel
developers made it clear that the days of them tolerating proprietary
drivers are numbered. Many people seem to be afraid they will lose
support for their favorite binary-driver hardware, and are trying to put
pressure on the kernel community, rather than on the vendors where it
belongs.
This being a religious statement? Most users want a system that works. They
really do not care that much exactly why and how. And when people come out
and declare that they do not care about the users, but that their
principles come first, people not unnaturally get upset. At both, but
unfortunately or otherwise, the developers are more public.
What are they going to do? Do a SCO and sue everyone around? Rewrite the
kernel so that proprietary drivers do not work (boy that will make them
popular)? Maybe force everyone to send any drivers to Linus for his personal
imprimature before they run?
Lee
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