Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 21:19 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 18:26 +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> > > On December 6th, 2005 the kernel developers en mass decide that binary
> > > modules are legally fine and also essential for the progress of linux,
> > 
> > Has anyone (influential) actually being toying with this idea? I hope not, but 
> > if they are, I'd like to know who to lobby...
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=e3c3374fbf7efe9487edc53cd10436ed641983aa


I think you're wrong on this. Not about thinking it should be reverted
per se, but in the big picture it's not linked to the scenario. One
export more or less doesn't matter at all. 

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