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Resisting the binary blobResisting the binary blobPosted Nov 15, 2006 2:29 UTC (Wed) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)In reply to: Resisting the binary blob by emkey Parent article: Resisting the binary blob
What would be the point at "winning the desktop for open source", only that the system is not really open source, and moreover depends in fundamental ways on closed source pieces to even minimally work? I, for one, prefer open source because it (mostly) works just fine, and (very important!) if it works with some piece of hardware today, it'll probably do so for the foreseable future, even if the vendor of said device would dearly like me to shell out for a yearly "upgrade", and nugde in that direction by just leaving their binary drivers to rot.
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Resisting the binary blob Posted Nov 16, 2006 18:43 UTC (Thu) by emkey (guest, #144) [Link] The point is that 95% of and ideal world is a lot better then 0% of an ideal world.
Resisting the binary blob Posted Nov 24, 2006 6:32 UTC (Fri) by linuxrocks123 (guest, #34648) [Link] To get anything resembling an ideal world, we must be firm in our demands.Binary drivers are not acceptable in the long run, and we should make it as undesirable as we can for vendors to produce them.
Putting pressure on vendors works, and things are much better now because
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