Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license | Date | Sun, 02 May 2004 20:04:48 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Marc Boucher <marc@linuxant.com> said: > On May 1, 2004, at 1:07 AM, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > > >> All bugs can be debugged or fixed, it's a matter of how hard it is > >> to do (generally easier with open-source) and *who* is responsible > >> for doing it (i.e. supporting the modules). > > > > Yes, exactly. The tainted mechanism is there to tell us that it's not > > *our* problem to support it. And you deliberately screwed that up, > > which is why everybody is pissed at you. > > It was already screwed up, and causing unnecessary support burdens > both on the community ("help! what does tainted mean")
A minor annoyance, no head hacker did ever respond to that on LKML.
> and vendors.
... got what was comming to them. A-OK.
> This thread and previous ones have shown ample evidence of that.
Of your stubborness, clearly.
> Let's deal with the root problem and fix the messages, as Rik van Riel > has suggested.
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