Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-07T20:19:13Z

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 21:16 +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 07:55:08PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > the biggest pitfal by having this done by a commercial entity or an
> > entity with commercial funding is that there is a LOT of pressure to
> > call things with binary drivers also certified/working.
> > It has to be an entity that can resist that pressure; if OSDL can,
> > great. But their funding is partially from sources that will try to put
> > that pressure on I suspect...
> > So I would almost rather have a separate "kicked off and supported by
> > OSDL" organisation with its own charter than have OSDL do it itself. I
> > can imagine OSDL feeling the same as well ...
>
> I don't like to see an entity doing this: if an organization (no matter
> if for-profit or no-profit) will do it, they may ask vendors to pay to
> be added to the "certified list".

yeah I agree that would be not good. providing a good open driver should
be reward already, not be a reason to be asked for more money

> A moinmoin wiki.kernel.org should work fine and it takes 10 minutes to
> set it up. Let's use the community to build this list. Perhaps
> wiki.kernel.org could also be used to document some kernel stuff later
> on.

the problem with this is that with wiki's you get a sliding scope wrt
criteria; I mean, many people will say nvidia graphics work great with
linux... and the wiki will represent that ;(