OT Ubuntu reaches out to embarrassed SuSE devs

Kurt Wall kwall at kurtwerks.com
Sat Nov 25 20:08:08 UTC 2006


On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 09:33:55AM -0700, grumpy wrote:
> On Saturday 25 November 2006 09:23, Alan wrote:
> > Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. We have "lets ship probably
> > illegal binary modules with the next version of the OS" lecturing people
> > who struck a deal with Microsoft which is borderline on the GPL.
> This kind of geek elitism is holding all of us back

On my planet, Alan's comment isn't "geek elitism," it's "adhering to the
license terms." And binary modules likely violate the kernel's license
terms.

Kurt
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