[olug] OT: more Hans goodness

[Luke -Jr]

On Wednesday 09 July 2008, Will Langford wrote:
> > Reiser4 isn't because Hans is a raging egomaniac who refused to make the
> > changes necessary to get it included in the kernel.  Reiser3 has been in
> > for years, but hasn't been touched by Hans or anyone else at Namesys
> > since work started on 4.
>
> Out of curiosity, by similar logic (ego, not releasing spec/sources...
> slightly unrelated) -- what about ppl who use drivers who only supply
> a binary object and wrapper source ? evil!

I'd say completely unrelated... but such drivers (for Linux, anyhow) are 
illegal (in the same way 'warez' are). Of course, like 'warez' also, it's the 
uploader who is infringing, not the user or downloader.