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Pragmatic Questions about Binary-Only Drivers

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The perpetual debate over the legality, practicality, and wisdom of using, distributing, producing, and supporting binary-only drivers flared up again recently, with a recent debate on the Linux Kernel Mailing List over the legality of binary-only drivers simmering down and Ubuntu company Canonical considering enabling binary drivers by default in the next release.

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Pragmatism can work jimf 2 2,038 Dec 25, 2006 11:56 PM

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