On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:46:15PM +0100, Liam Bedford mentioned:
> It is thus in the interest of all users to discourage proprietary
> modules. It is not a question of irrational allergies to end-user
> license agreements or free software fundamentalism; it is, instead, a
> matter of creating the most stable and capable kernel possible.
I suppose that is the core of the argument;
do you want the most stable and capable kernel, or the most usable one.
John
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