On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 10:09:49AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 04:23:05PM +0000, Alan wrote: > > > > Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. We have "lets ship probably > > illegal binary modules with the next version of the OS" lecturing people > > who struck a deal with Microsoft which is borderline on the GPL. > > Once upon a time, "probably illegal" was not the same as "illegal", > and there used to be a presumption of innocence until proven > guilty. This was back in the days of Magna Carta and bills of > rights. Of course the Bush and Blair governments have done as much as > they can to drop those concepts down the memory hole. There is no need > to follow that lead here. Until such time as Nvidia, ATI, et al., tell > Mr. Shuttleworth and his merry band otherwise, shipping those binaries > with Ubuntu is fine with me. Shipping them isn't the primary issue. That they are binary-only is the issue. Kurt -- I *knew* I had some reason for not logging you off... If I could just remember what it was.
