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List:       opensuse-wiki
Subject:    The GPL jihad gets another victory...
From:       Mark Hellman <markhellman () techie ! com>
Date:       2006-02-17 19:30:44
Message-ID: 43F62464.6000406 () techie ! com
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... at the expense of thousands of present and future SuSE users who,
from now on, won't be able to get their Intel and Smartlink modems,
their wireless cards, or their ISDN cards to work. The very same devices
that enable them to connect to the Internet...

Some people foolish think this GPL "sharia" from the kernel folks is a
sort of social engineering to pressure manufacturers to open their
drivers code. Understand this once and for all: there have been, there
are and always will be manufacturers that don't want to open their
drivers code. It is their legitimate right to do so, and Linux must be
able to peacefully coexist with this reality. On the user perspective,
this "sharia" is just on more reason for not using SuSE...


Mark

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