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Proprietary loadable kernel modules

Posted Mar 21, 2011 21:33 UTC (Mon) by chrisV (subscriber, #43417)
In reply to: Proprietary loadable kernel modules by FlorianMueller
Parent article: Has Bionic stepped over the GPL line?

"It's not so hard to explain why people would fail to understand the significance of this. To understand it requires ..."

Since you are neither a lawyer nor a kernel developer, to be perfectly frank your understanding probably doesn't mean very much.

Judging by the number of post you have made to this thread, you also have a significant amount of time on your hands, so you could consider using it to obtain a legal qualification.


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Proprietary loadable kernel modules

Posted Apr 18, 2011 20:31 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

What? Florian's not even a lawyer? But he spouts off so much about other poeple (hello PJ) not being lawyers and therefore not being eligible to say a blessed thing...

*boggle*

Proprietary loadable kernel modules

Posted Apr 18, 2011 20:33 UTC (Mon) by FlorianMueller (guest, #32048) [Link]

You miss the point here. I never said that non-lawyers are ineligible to talk about those matters. I pointed out that the avatar named "PJ" doesn't provide any background other than the status of "paralegal".

Proprietary loadable kernel modules

Posted May 9, 2011 11:12 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Yes, you did. Over and over again. What you failed to indicate is why we should care at all, much less why we should consider her employment credentials more significant than the things she's done under the groklaw banner. "Florian does it" is not sufficient evidence.

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