Binary-only kernel modules may be banned

Binary-only kernel modules may be banned

Posted Dec 14, 2006 2:31 UTC (Thu) by moxfyre (subscriber, #13847)
In reply to: Binary-only kernel modules may be banned by Erich_J_Ritzmann
Parent article: Binary-only kernel modules may be banned

In more than a dozen years Linux is still in the technical adventure space rather than a mainstream platform. (Contrast that with the commercial success of OS X in just half of those years.) Businesses that do not reduce the risk of immitation will not be in business very long, that is the reality of the day. Will pissing off the businesses that supply hardware drivers in binary improve the progress? Mightn't they decide that the Linux market is just not worth the trouble?

What a troll... if Linux isn't a "mainstream platform" then I don't know what is. Look at Netcraft and see how many web servers run Linux. Look at Google. Go to any scientific environment and see how many people are doing heavy number crunching, CAD, and writing papers under Linux. All the (admittedly unreliable) data I've seen indicate that desktop Linux use is in the same ballpark as OS X use. Linux may not be on every desktop, but it's about as mainstream as you can get these days. All manner of enterprises, universities, and governments depend on it.

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