Re: [future of drivers?] a proposal for binary drivers.

From: Lee Revell
Date: Thu Mar 09 2006 - 17:03:34 EST


On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 16:30 -0500, Dave Neuer wrote:
> At any rate, at the moment I'm getting paid software, not for legal
> analysis which I'm not qualified to give. I'm certainly not getting
> paid enough to sue anyone, so unless some other kernel hacker or
> company is planning on initiating a lawsuit (to which I'd happily
> join) it's fairly moot, and I'll let it drop at that.

I would think a lawsuit hasn't happened because it would be more
productive to work with these vendors to move the parts of the driver
that must remain closed to userspace.

Lee

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