From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ehud Gavron Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:22:58 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] b43/b43legacy - Credit Broadcom with enabling the development of the drivers In-Reply-To: References: <1284921651.24835.11.camel@i7.infradead.org> <4C97AFCE.3040806@wetwork.net> Message-ID: <4C97D0B2.9080704@wetwork.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org 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. -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ehudwetworkcontactqrcode.png Type: image/png Size: 1007 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 5507 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: