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Quote of the weekQuote of the weekPosted Dec 17, 2004 2:33 UTC (Fri) by bk (guest, #25617)In reply to: Quote of the week by mrshiny Parent article: Quote of the week
Now stability suffers greatly because you have scads of badly written drivers (probably with lots of them as proprietary binary blobs in your hypothetical situation) that run in kernel space but are illogically considered to be separate entities due to the "stable" kernel ABI.
Beyond that, now you can't even boot your PC without third-party motherboard binary drivers; it's so easy to develop and distribute proprietary drivers, why should hardware vendors bother with all this GPL nonsense? Sure, the core kernel is still free but it hardly matters anymore since any functional distribution requires a dozen or more third-party drivers to work correctly on a mainstream PC.
No thanks.
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