Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 14th Dec 2006 03:00 UTC, submitted by SEJeff
Linux "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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RE: What are they thinking?
by joeljkp on Thu 14th Dec 2006 05:10 UTC in reply to "What are they thinking?"
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Read a bit further down in the thread. Linus himself wrote in explaining how stupid he thinks this idea is, which I would think effectively kills it.

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