Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 14th Dec 2006 03:00 UTC, submitted by SEJeff
"It's always an interesting day when you get to write a kernel patch, at the urging of Andrew Morton, that notifies the world that non-GPL Linux kernel modules will not work after January 2008 and write some poetry all in the same message."
More here. Hopefully, many closed-source drivers will be opened during the next year if this patch goes through. Update: Linus responds.
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2006-12-11
I really don't need this. I'm voting against this with my wallet. I've already purchased an iMac (17") for one of my daughters for Christmas. I didn't want to get a Windows machine because I don't trust Windows anymore. And I refused to get a machine and install Linux, any Linux distribution, because it's so easy to break and there's little in the way of quality applications that match what my daughter is used to under Windows and Mac OSX from high school. So I bought a Mac. And as time goes along, I'll buy more of them for personal use as well as for work.
With the exception of the hard-core user, Linux is going to make themselves unwelcome with these antics. Who wants to get pulled into this zealot's fight? All most folks want to do is run the hardware they purchased and get the best experience possible with as little hassle as possible. Blocking binary-only "non-free" drivers is the ultimate in hassle. They just want it to work.
And as an embedded developer, I can tell you this: if this really goes into the kernel, I'll look long and hard at another alternative to embedded Linux, starting tomorrow.