Alan Cox wrote: >> In Australia, devices require approval from a regulatory body. Such >> approval is withheld if appropriate safeguards are not applied. >> > > We were talking about the USA.
We most certainly were not. We are talking about Linux, and everybody wants it be used globally. > I am not aware of any Australian answers > to the specific question of software as an appropriate safeguard. The US > requires appropriate safeguards but no court has actually established an > interpretation of them. > Probably the same in Australia, for the same reason as in USA. Probably the same in most countries. >> That is what I was saying: To require that only GPL-licenced USB drivers >> may be used with Linux puts Linux at a disadvantage in the market. The >> > > Diddums, thats what the license says. That's what you claim it says, but has any court, anywhere, agreed with you? You claim the authority of others (i.e. numerous lawyers), but I don't believe you have that authority. You're just starting hearsay. You've never said what lawyers and you've never told us what they actually said. I see that you have a clear political agenda, and I respect it in principle, but you're claiming that things are so in pursuit of that agenda when you don't *know* that they are. You don't need to stretch any truths to spread adoption of GPL, and doing so is not respectable. > Requiring ac cinema pays the movie > company puts a cinema at a disadvantage in the market from those who > don't pay. That is why we have laws to try and ensure that crime is not > profitable. I don't understand this, but I do understand that an essential question being considered is whether or not Linux can participate in a market that prohibits GPL drivers, whether explicitly, or more likely through pressure from regulatory bodies. Doing this would be a mistake. Probably a big one. Don't telling people to switch to BSD, as some have done; they might do it. Where would Linux be if embedded devices used BSD instead? Don't think they can't. Don't think Linux has a technical advantage. Lose the embedded market, and that's where it would be felt first, and Linux volumes fall by what? 50%? 90%? Would you care if servers followed? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
