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Re: Free Linux Kernel



On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 09:02:40AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 21:34, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > I had been working on cleansing it, but have gotten depressed by the hostile
> > response from some of the Debian kernel maintainers and the dead silence
> > from upstream.
> 
> >From memory, there's someone on lkml who has a "list" of the non-free
> bits of the kernel. If you post and ask, you might get a response.
> 
> And be assured - there is a silent (perhaps even majority) waiting in
> the wings who will solidly support such efforts/ results.

Please don't use "silent majority" arguments.  By definition we don't know
the opinions of people who haven't shared those opinions with us.

If people don't have the backbone to stand up to the assertion that the
Linux kernel is merely an anthology of C source files, then this sort of
cravenness is something for which they need to be held to account.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |
Debian GNU/Linux                   |      Ignorantia judicis est calamitas
branden@debian.org                 |      innocentis.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |

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