[3485] in linux-net channel archive
Re: ET support for LINUX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (H. Peter Anvin)
Tue Jun 25 07:52:38 1996
To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: hpa@freya.yggdrasil.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Date: 25 Jun 1996 10:21:28 GMT
Reply-To: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Followup to: <199606171937.PAA01656@etinc.com>
By author: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.net
>
> Mogens Melander SUMS IT UP!
>=20
>=20
> >That is what customers do, they look for a product that meet their
> >demands. If they dont find it in your company, they go look
> >somewhere else.
>=20
> Exactly. Then why are so many people who clearly dont want
> what we have to offer think that they can bludgeon us into giving
> them what we clearly won't give them just to keep them from going
> elsewhere. People use external routers, people use competitive
> products. When the phone rings, sometimes you make a sale, and
> sometimes you dont. Its very simple.
>=20
Just ignore the loudmouths. There seems to be a contingent of Linux
users who don't want any commercial software on their systems. Fine,
but please guys, don't shove that opinion down someone else's throat.
Linus has clearly stated how the GPL applies to kernel modules: if you
use only the "offical" interface exported via .h files and
/proc/ksyms, your kernel module is considered a separate piece of
software and the GPL does *not* apply, just as the GPL does not affect
a user mode program just because it runs on Linux.
That being said, **all other things being equal**, I would buy the
card which comes with driver source.
-hpa
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