--- Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, September 4, 2005 10:00 pm, Alex Davis said: > > Dave Jones wrote: > >>- NDISwrapper / driverloader. > >> (Shock, horror - no-one cares). > > > > Shock, horror. Someone DOES care: everyone who uses ndiswrapper or > > driverloader, whether they know it or not. Are you proposing that > > we punish the end-users because of the obstinence of the hardware > > manufacturers? If/when native drivers are written, maybe we can > > revisit this. > > > Continuing the promotion of binary-only drivers _hurts_ the demand for > (and thus the development of) open source drivers. Read the comment from > Dave as something like "Nobody who matters, with regard to kernel > development, cares about NDISwrapper". If _you_ care, fork your own tree > and maintain the patch as necessary. > > Regards, > Sean Sean: Linux isn't just used by kernel developers. It's that attitude that helps insure Linux will always have a small userbase. Lack of numbers just gives the manufacturers another reason not to care about us. Joe User doesn't care about our philosophical issues, nor should he. When I install Linux on someone's machine, he wants it to work NOW, not in some 'perfect-world' future. -Alex -Alex > I code, therefore I am __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
