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Resisting the binary blob

Resisting the binary blob

Posted Nov 16, 2006 18:43 UTC (Thu) by emkey (guest, #144)
In reply to: Resisting the binary blob by vonbrand
Parent article: Resisting the binary blob

The point is that 95% of and ideal world is a lot better then 0% of an ideal world.


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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
of it. You used to basically need the proprietary browser Netscape 4 to
view web sites that had images. Clearly, we've come a long way.

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