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Quotes of the weekQuotes of the weekPosted Jun 21, 2012 2:08 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1)In reply to: Quotes of the week by jackb Parent article: Quotes of the week When a quote is as widely sensationalized as that one was, it doesn't really seem necessary to copy it onto the kernel page as well. I suppose I could have quoted from this related message, but it kind of slipped my mind, sorry.
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Quotes of the week Posted Jun 21, 2012 6:01 UTC (Thu) by jackb (subscriber, #41909) [Link]
Perhaps it would be best addressed in the future, depending on if there are observable ramifications or not.
Quotes of the week Posted Jun 21, 2012 7:13 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] We do not all read the lkml, and we do not all follow on tech news. Perhaps I am the only that has not heard about that quote, but it would be nice to have it here if only for future reference.
Quotes of the week Posted Jun 22, 2012 16:53 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] I too had no idea what was being referred to, but with clues in this thread, I did a web search and came up with this. The quote is only 3 words, but also comes with a visual gesture.http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/torvalds-nvidia-linux/
Quotes of the week Posted Jun 22, 2012 17:10 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Thanks, I had managed to miss it in a cursory web search. It is really not qotw material...
Quotes of the week Posted Jun 22, 2012 23:49 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
It *was* amusing a few minutes later, when the last questioner said that he'd gone to work for <voice type="small">nvidia</voice>...
Quotes of the week Posted Jun 21, 2012 14:46 UTC (Thu) by clump (subscriber, #27801) [Link]
Thank you for not posting the quote. I'd rather see more respectful discourse. Thank you instead for posting the link in this thread. I wasn't previously aware of Stephen Warren's and am happy to have read it.
Quotes of the week Posted Jun 26, 2012 15:13 UTC (Tue) by ortalo (subscriber, #4654) [Link]
IMHO, all this was settled once upon a time in the past when binary-only modules were allowed to load into the kernel. (NB: At that time, it seemed to me that allowing this attitude from hardware manufacturers, especially in the GPU market, was satisfactory for Linus. Personnally, I am glad to see his posture has evolved.)
It does not mean all hope is lost. Maybe now, 15 years later, it's time to re-orient the strategy; either by:
Of course, any of these options may be even more provocative than the initial demonstration...
PS: I erroneously posted this comment at the root instead of as a reply in the good thread so this is a repost. Is it possible to delete the other one? (ID: 503553)
Quotes of the week Posted Jun 26, 2012 19:09 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
If the binary module is not a derivative of the kernel, there are no grounds for saying that it can't be used. That's a very different statement from saying that this is a good thing, or even acceptable.
It's very possible to say that NVIDIA has the right to do what they are doing, but at the same time say that they are one of the worst companies to deal with.
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