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very good reasons to not support binary drivers

Story: Will NexentaOS (GNU/OpenSolaris) succeed as a Desktop?Total Replies: 2
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tuxchick2

Jun 17, 2006
12:11 PM EDT 		I smell more astroturfing. This continual crabbing about 'Linux doesn't support binary drivers the right way' has been debunked many times. It's just another attempt to discredit Linux and to try to take advantage of GPL code without having to honor the GPL.
jimf

Jun 17, 2006
12:25 PM EDT 		> Will NexentaOS (GNU/OpenSolaris) succeed as a Desktop?

Absolutely not. Talk ablut a kludge, that whole project is just nuts.
jsusanka

Jun 18, 2006
3:06 PM EDT 		"smell more astroturfing. This continual crabbing about 'Linux doesn't support binary drivers the right way' has been debunked many times. It's just another attempt to discredit Linux and to try to take advantage of GPL code without having to honor the GPL."

totally agree - just because something does something one way doesn't make it right or wrong just different.

like one of the other posters said if I want binary proprietary private secret drivers I would run windows.

I don't think the way the solaris kernel does somethings is the right way.

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