Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:21:51 +0200 | From | Gianluca Alberici <> | Subject | Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper |
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Thierry Vignaud wrote:
>David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> 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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