From: Ehud Gavron <gavron@wetwork.net>
To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] b43/b43legacy - Credit Broadcom with enabling the development of the drivers
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:22:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C97D0B2.9080704@wetwork.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinEY2XeoA1WN8GRTdAcSebe+LUb-N9u7-zz_bpe@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/20/2010 12:09 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
...trimmed
> That's exactly the problem, no one had the business motivation to
> really try to solve how to really deal with regulatory considerations
> with FOSS, and average developers simply wanted a solution. Its easier
> said than done. If you deal with regulatory considerations as a
> community effort then a path becomes clearer as to how to deal with
> these issues. The reason why current legislation doesn't seem to make
> sense is because it does not, but just because a law doesn't make
> sense it does not enable vendors to ignore it. So the best you can do
> in the meantime is really be proactive by working on real technical
> solutions.
>
>
It is not up to us to "...deal with regulatory considerations..."
The "best we can do" is code, and that's what coders do. The lawyers
can do what lawyers do.*
> We are not dealing with legal issues on Linux, we are dealing with
> engineering solutions, and trust me, we're light years ahead of other
> OSes because of this now.
>
> Luis
>
Light year is a measure of distance. You mean "years"... and we're
ahead of others because
we're not wasting our time on legal crap.
Let the lawyers do that.
E
* Disclosures: I am not a lawyer. I haven't coded in months. I used to
do VMS kernel code.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-20 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-19 18:40 [PATCH] b43/b43legacy - Credit Broadcom with enabling the development of the drivers David Woodhouse
2010-09-20 16:36 ` Gábor Stefanik
2010-09-20 16:36 ` Gábor Stefanik
2010-09-20 16:56 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-09-20 16:56 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-09-20 19:02 ` Ehud Gavron
2010-09-20 19:09 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-09-20 21:22 ` Ehud Gavron [this message]
2010-09-20 21:33 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-09-20 21:51 ` Ehud Gavron
2010-09-21 4:01 ` Peter Stuge
2010-09-21 4:24 ` Baybal Ni
2010-09-21 4:44 ` Peter Stuge
2010-09-21 22:38 ` Larry Finger
2010-09-22 5:05 ` Michael Büsch
2010-09-22 11:14 ` David Woodhouse
2010-09-22 17:26 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-09-22 11:07 ` David Woodhouse
2010-09-23 19:33 ` Ealdwulf Wuffinga
2010-09-20 21:42 ` David Woodhouse
2010-09-20 21:42 ` David Woodhouse
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