Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:05:45 -0700 | From | Tim Hockin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license |
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On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 12:59:23AM +0200, Robert M. Stockmann wrote: > look i have made complaints about gcc-3.x some time ago, on the gcc > mailinglist. Also there they put my opinions aside, with arguments > like any powerfull feature can be used in a bad and in a good way. > The powerfull feature here is the C99 coding style, which allows for > unnamed and anonymous structures and unions. Don't kill our C99 cause it > can do bad things. Of course not.
> If every major hardware vendor (like e.g. Adaptec, LSI Logic) will change > its policy, to implement its drivers as semi- binary only kernel modules, like > Promise did with its FastTrak line of controllers, like in the example above, > the Open Source lable of the linux kernel can be placed into the computer > museum. Isn't that exactly what a certain Redmond software company wants > to achieve?
What the hell do these two paragraphs have to do with each other?
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