Re: Announce: ndiswrapper

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 00:06:29 EST




Randy.Dunlap wrote:

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:49:05 +1100 Nick Piggin <piggin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| Neil Brown wrote:
|

| >
| >Ofcourse we cannot and should not stop people from providing the
| >option of binary only drivers, but I'm not convinced that we should
| >acknowlege that people who provide binary-only drivers are doing a
| >useful service for anyone but themselves.
| >
| | No I wouldn't say that, I meant the Linux Kernel is doing the end users
| a favour by allowing binary modules.

that's questionable since we can't support them (i.e. fix bugs/problems
with them).



We don't, nvidia does (directly or through a distro).
We provide choice, right?


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