Binary-only kernel modules may be banned

Binary-only kernel modules may be banned

Posted Dec 14, 2006 10:09 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Binary-only kernel modules may be banned by einstein
Parent article: Binary-only kernel modules may be banned

But instead of working to address the problems, they instead are going to tell the 3rd party vendors to go take a hike, and leave the users high and dry.

I would say that Linux developers have given a fair amount of support and have tried to address the problems with graphics cards vendors. In fact devs have cried out loud for card specs for years, which is everything vendors would need to release. Or release their drivers under the GPL. Their decision to release binary drivers is the worst of both worlds.

The fact that you either don't play games, or choose to use a windoze peecee for all your gaming, doesn't really earn you any credibility points to talk about gaming on linux...

There are other alternatives, you know. I don't want to risk my credibility points, but I hear consoles are pretty popular these days.

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