Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

[Gianluca Alberici]

Thierry Vignaud wrote:

> David Weinehall <tao@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>  
>
> > > > Personally I feel that no matter if they are legal or not, we
> > > > should not cater to such drivers in the first place.  If it's
> > > > trickier to use Windows API-drivers under Linux than to write a
> > > > native Linux driver, big deal...  We don't want Windows-drivers.
> > > > We want native drivers.
> > > >        
> > > Neither taint nor _GPL are intended to stop people doing things
> > > that, in the eyes of the masses, are stupid. The taint mark is
> > > there to ensure that they don't harm the rest of us. The FSF view
> > > of freedom is freedom to modify not freedom to modify in a manner
> > > approved by some defining body.
> > >      
> > Hence my use of the world "Personally".  It's my own opinion that we
> > shouldn't support Windows API-drivers.  I don't think this has
> > anything to do with the FSF view on freedom.  This has to do with
> > the freedom to make a sound technical decision.
> >    
>
> and your freedom to do whatever you want at home isn't restricted by
> the tainting.
>  
In fact it is now, because ndiswrapper doesnt load on 2.6.19.
The fact: there's a lot of people who are not gonna be using his wlan
unless they are able to modify the sources.
I wouldnt forget that ndiswrapper is a tool which solves problems. Linux
diffusion is affected by compatibility issues.
I really cant see the benefit for Linux in stop supporting windows NDIS
drivers...there's a lot of hardware which works only by that.

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