On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 09:47:44AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 31, Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote: > > > I believe that everybody involved was aware of this, but had neither > > understanding of the driver nor hardware with which to test, and > > concluded that a legal kernel was better. I expect a working patch > > would be gratefully received. > I hope not, because then users probably would never understand why their > hardware does not have the expected performance when used with Debian. And for those of you watching at home, this sort of FUD response is *precisely* why so many people are confused about the tg3 driver. "This piece of free software is not as good as a piece of non-free software for me. Debian should do the following, in order of preference: (1) Include the non-free software in main (2) Include neither (3) Include the free software in main " Really, you have to wonder why some people are associated with Debian at all, given their apparent positiion against the fundamental purpose of the project. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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