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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2005-07-06
I think one of the problems here is people are looking for a tidy, black and white solution. There isn't one.
Most companies don't find writing open source drivers prudent. Period. Unless they have motivation to do so (gains in marketshare etc), they will not.
ATI/NVidia never struck me as more than token supporters of Linux as it is. Tell them they need to open their drivers, and we may lose what little support we (users of Linux) have.
No matter what, I, as a user, should have the right to control what is or is not on my system. Not some maintainer/copyright holder. Dictate what I can/cannot do with my computer and you're stumbling into proprietary (eek, drm/trusted computing?!) territory. And defeating one of the chief strengths of foss software!