Messages in this thread | | | From | "Hua Zhong" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license | Date | Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:37:26 -0700 |
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My last email on this topic. If it weren't Linus I would have stopped. :-)
> What is so hard to understand about the problem with bugs? > > All software has bugs. Binary modules just mean that those bugs are > - FATAL to the system, including possibly being a huge security hole. > - impossible to debug > - impossible to fix
It's the user's choice to run binary modules on their systems, as long as the "tainted" issue is not hidden (which I clearly said was wrong) so the support burden is directed to the right company/person who will hopefully fix those bugs, why should it concern kernel developers so much? Let the user have a choice. A working computer which occasionally crashes is still better to the user than a stable computer which doesn't do the job.
In this sense, it doesn't matter it's a bug in user space or kernel space, or hard or easy to fix, as long as it doesn't cause much extra burden to the community.
All I try to say is about the business model of supporting closed-source drivers by a GPL'ed wrapper. It may not be perfect in an imperfect world, but nothing to criticize on.
> So don't bother trying to stand up for Linuxant. What they > did was WRONG, and there are no excuses for it. And I hope > that they have it fixed already and we can hereby just forget > about this discussion.
You don't need to tell me why it was wrong, because I already said it was wrong. :-) I'm not standing up for linuxant either - I am not their customers and I hardly heard of this name before. I'm just standing up for a generic issue (which is often silly).
And I agree we should stop this thread now.
> Linus >
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