On 10/14/07, Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> The binary blob issue is a political issue and a legal issue. It will be
> very interesting to see the outcome. It seems the purist wins in
> the kernel world and the pragmatists have some wins in the distros
> (eg Ubuntu).
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>
That is very much an oversimplification of the matter.  Linus Torvalds
is far more the pragmatist, indeed for a very long time kernel
versioning was handled by a closed-source package.

One must be very cautious with many articles on what is happening in
the world of kernel development.  There are a lot of people involved,
and many articles blow discussions out of proportion.

As for the matter of lawyers and open source, I anticipate there's
quite a few lawyers involved in using just about any third-party code.
 On this Linux is by no means unique.  Openness is an advantage to all
of us, sharing ideas can only enrich humanity.  That being said, the
reason to use Linux is because it's better for the application.  If it
doesn't work better for the application, don't use it.



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