Re: Binary drivers (Linux is DOOMED, DOOMED!)

Damien Miller (djm@mindrot.org)
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 17:20:21 +1100 (EST)


On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Kendall Bennett wrote:

> Alan believe there is no problem. Yet lots of people (software
> developers and hardware vendors alike) tell me via private email that
> they agree entirely with what I am saying. Yet they seem to be too
> scared to bring this up in public, because the Linux kernel
> developers have a long history of shooting down very good, well
> designed ideas because *they* don't agree with it.

This is ridiculuous - *they* have every right to shoot down ideas
*they* don't agree with, because *they* wrote or maintain a
substantial part of the kernel.

-d

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