OT Ubuntu reaches out to embarrassed SuSE devs

[grumpy]

On Saturday 25 November 2006 13:08, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 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.
you don't *have* to install them...but you will ;-)
>
> Kurt
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