[olug] OT: more Hans goodness

[Kevin]

I'd say that it is indeed similar.

There are times that if you take the route of 'my way or the highway'
that people will take the highway. Which is worse? Manufacturers who
supply nothing whatsoever for Linux or manufacturers who supply only a
binary driver? I'd rather have any kind of driver than no support. If
it is necessary for me to accept part of the evil to get them used to
working with Linux, I'll take it.

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> 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.
> _______________________________________________
> OLUG mailing list
> OLUG at olug.org
> http://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug
>