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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2005-07-02
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.
I'm wondering, though...has anyone actually made any serious attempts to convince them to go open-source? I agree that threats won't work (and may have the opposite effect), but how about trying to reason with them? After all, making their drivers open-source would make things a lot easier for them, as they no longer would have to maintain them.
I wonder how serious the community has been in trying to establish an ongoing dialog with these two companies...