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LinkSys and binary modulesLinkSys and binary modulesPosted Oct 16, 2003 18:22 UTC (Thu) by andrel (subscriber, #5166)In reply to: LinkSys and binary modules by zmower Parent article: LinkSys and binary modules As far as the legal system is concerned, the only people harmed by copyright infringement (that's what a GPL violation is) are the copyright holders. So the kernel authors could sue, but people who purchase the router can't. Binary drivers aren't in any of our long-term interest -- cases like this which push hardware manufacturers to publish the bus-level interface instead of crappy drivers are a good thing. If I wanted to be forced to use closed source drivers I'd run SCO or Microsoft, not GNU/Linux.
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