[3332] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Binary Driver Issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis)
Wed Jun 19 14:56:25 1996
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 11:40:32 -0400
To: shagboy@thecia.net
From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
>> whole stupid point of it. Every one of you is "stealing" from Microsoft and
>> IBM by your definition, as you're using an operating system that you "didnt
>> spend a dime on" developing. Anyone who sells systems with linux installed
>> is in violation, because they're using the "free" software as bait to
make money
>> on systems hardware.
>
>Well, this argument doesn't make much sense. Whoever runs DOS or Windows
>DID spend a lot more than a dime on it. The company spent the money
>developing, and then the people paid them back for that development. I
>agree with you on the free software issue, but MS/IBM/etc do NOT give
>away their software. The end users are, in one form or another, paying
>for the development of the software.
What i was saying is that by using a free OS you in effect have a gain
because you
dont have to pay for another OS that is not free.
>
>> So you're saying that we should stop development of our ethernet bandwidth
>> limiter (now available for FreeBSD and BSD/OS) that all of the linux ISPs
have
>> been asking for? Our current bandwidth limiter only acts on our hardware....
>> so it arguably fits your tiny mind's definitions.....but the ethernet
>> thing...well, do we have to manufacture a card now?
>
>You really have one of these things? And you're developing for Linux?
>Can you tell me where I can get some more info on this?
Well...Im not sure now, because it does require a kernel modification to
work. The Freebsd and BSDI version is in beta test. Info should be up on
our web site very soon.
>
>I do see Dennis's point on not wanting to keep up with kernel-du-jour,
>and let me just add to what people have already said - If you don't like
>that policy, you don't have to do business with ET. That's your choice,
>but don't bitch about it here. I must ask one question of Dennis,
>however - Does ET plan to upgrade their driver to the 2.0 series kernel?
>It IS, ostensibly, a stable release. I'm not asking for a driver
>tomorrow, just a release schedule, if any.
Its done. beta1 was bad...but so far reports on beta2 for LINUX 2.0.0 are
good.
Dennis
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>shag
>
>Judd Bourgeois | When we are planning for posterity,
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>Finger for PGP key | not hereditary. Thomas Paine
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