--- Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, September 4, 2005 11:41 pm, Alex Davis said: > > > It will never be 'appropriate' if the system doesn't somehow work on Joe's > > hardware. We currently have something that works. In my opinion it's > > pointless to take that away. The manufacturers will still stone-wall us > > regardless of ndiswrapper's existence. They were doing it before ndis- > > wrapper existed. > > There are lots and lots of systems where Linux works. Encouraging users > to buy hardware that works with Linux, can only help. Encouraging them > that it doesn't matter and that binary-only drivers are a good > alternative, can only hurt. > > > Please explain how Linux can be an 'important force' if people can't > > use it? Wireless networking is very important to people. > > Lots of people can and do use Linux without ANY binary drivers. There > are Wireless choices that don't require binary only drivers. What if you don't have a choice? When someone comes to me with their laptop containing a built-in wireless card not natively supported by Linux, am I supposed to tell them "go buy a Linux-supported card" when there's a way I can make their existing card work? I don't think so. > > Um, ever hear of 'compromise'?? All I'm saying is let people use what > > currently works until we can get an open-source solution. Ndiswrapper's > > existence is not stopping you (or anyone else) from pestering > > manufacturers > > for spec's and writing drivers. I look at ndiswrapper as a stop-gap > > solution. > > Hey, even Linus himself has said 'better a sub-optimal solution than no > > solution'. > > Nobody is stopping anyone from using what "currently works", there will be > lots of like minded people to provide crap kernels and shitty binary > drivers to people who don't know better. > So don't worry, your well > intentioned vision of the future will survive the removal of 8K stacks > from the kernel. > Regards, > Sean > > > I code, therefore I am __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/