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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RE[4]: all hail morton
by archiesteel on Thu 14th Dec 2006 16:12
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RE[4]: all hail morton
by trinitrotolueen on Thu 14th Dec 2006 16:20
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Do you really believe that some 1% share of desktop personal computers can impress manufacturers ? And that is how big Linux share is.
Please let's not start another discussion about Linux market share, m'kay?
In Jan. 2005 it was estimated at around 3%...I doubt it has gone down since then. In any case, it is irrelevant to the discussion at hand. As I and others have noted, the kernel devs will *not* be able to enforce this. Workarounds will be found if necessary.
Also, I think there's a good chance Nvidia and ATI will open-source their drivers. It would make financial sense, as they would no longer have to maintain them themselves.