Closed source userspace graphics drivers with an open source kernel component

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 07:03:22AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:

> We have sources to our web browsers but not to the a number of the
> various web services that the browsers talk to (GMail, AIM, Gmane, 
> Yahoo Finance, Google Search, etc.).    
> 
> And we have the sources to the Intel wireless drivers, but not to the
> firmware, and that's not necessarily considered a horrendous thing.  

But we did consider it a horrendous thing when we had the source to a 
Intel wireless driver but not the source to the usercode regulatory 
daemon it required. Sufficiently horrendous not to merge the driver.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org