Re: Possibly offtopic : Binary only driver

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 06:06:14PM +0000, Mike Hearn wrote:
> > Both of which run under the protection of the kernel.
> So what? It still involves debugging programs with binary components.

If you'd ever done any work of that nature you wouldnt be saying "so what"

> If you keep making those sorts of decisions you end up bankrupt, because
> ultimately you're not meeting the customers needs. For once, patents and
> other "legal entanglements" don't enter into it.

You've also clearly never spent time talking to Nvidia about the issues as
they see them.

Alan