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Re: [News] Linux Will Not Favour or Need Proprietary Device Drivers

  • Subject: Re: [News] Linux Will Not Favour or Need Proprietary Device Drivers
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:13:15 +0100
  • In-reply-to: <15503887.RUZOrsp4fU@schestowitz.com>
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Slated.org
  • References: <15503887.RUZOrsp4fU@schestowitz.com>
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Linux this year and next
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Jonathan Corbet, co-author of Linux Device Drivers, analyzed Linu
> | changes over the past year and makes some predictions for the future
> | 
> | [...]
> | 
> | Proprietary device drivers aren't working, Corbet said as he showed
> | a text-filled slide full of reasons. "It's not a way we can go, we
> | cannot give in to it, and I don't think we're going to have to."
> `----
> 
> http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/042007-linux-predictions.html?page=1

I hope that dream comes true, but it looks likely that the hardware
manufacturers will push onwards with their policy of locking people out
of their hardware, more and more restrictively.

> Recall the vulnerabilities in Wi-fi and GPU binary drivers.

Yes.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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| I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating system,
| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
| is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2>
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