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
Is Office a "pure userspace" application?
I believe it is. There's no reason why any of it should run in kernelspace (and that would be very dangerous anyway).
It may be that some parts of the Window kernel are needed for the office port to work. The kernel space binary blob would be needed to make Office run.
I find that very doubtful. Do you have any sources to support your assertion that parts of Office run in kernelspace?