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Richard's Dream and Institutionalized Mental Illness
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| Way back in the very olden days, or so the story goes, Richard M. Stallman
| was motivated to launch the Free Software movement because of something that
| afflicts us to this day- crappy binary-only printer drivers.
|
| [...]
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| Something else that hasn't changed is vendor's annoying, no, make that
| pathological mania for secrecy. Another gadget you can get is one to read and
| decipher the trouble codes emitted by your vehicle's engine. There is just a
| tiny bit of built-in data storage in your vehicle, so if you don't capture
| the information quickly it's lost, which makes diagnosing a transient problem
| ever so much fun.
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http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2008/07/richards-dream.html
Richard Stallman in Auckland 8th August 2008
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| For many people, the Internet legend, Richard Stallman needs no introduction.
| Nor does the picture. However, for those who do, good old wikipedia will tell
| you in a heartbeat that , "Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953),
| often abbreviated "rms",[2] is an American software freedom activist, hacker
| (programmer), [3] and software developer.
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http://mcgovernonline.blogspot.com/2008/07/richard-stallman-in-auckland-8th-august.html
Recent:
Linux Foundation points finger at Nvidia
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| Though a statement issued Monday does not cite Nvidia by name, Linux
| Foundation Technical Advisory Board Chair James Bottomley cited Nvidia in a
| phone interview. "My intent is to point out the problems Nvidia has been
| causing themselves with their binary-only (drivers)," he said. "They are
| certainly one of the few companies sticking to a binary-only strategy."
| Binary-only means the drivers are essentially closed.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9975720-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Position Statement on Linux Kernel Modules
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Kernel_Driver_Statement
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