| > When have they ever done that? During the AMD vs. Kernel maintainers mailing list slapfight? It all was discussed there. > The Linux devs are not doing a singular thing to actively make AMD's life more difficult. AMD is begging them to do something that makes their life more difficult, and they are saying, "no". AMD has provided a fully working driver with abstraction layers fully implemented, and has offered to pay devs to continue to maintain it. The maintainers would have had zero extra work. > If the Linux devs suddenly decide they will compromise to make proprietary software more convenient, then I, the user, will lose freedom. The stubbornness of the Linux team is not just for them, it is for me, for you, and for anyone who uses Linux. Yes, and that's why the Linux kernel's license is being enforced against OEMs that sell proprietary forks of the kernel and refuse to publish source code... Oh wait, Torvalds actually support those OEMs. And complains about people who fight them. > That is the entire premise of Free Software What good is free software if it is broken? As I mentioned before, AMD published a fully working solution under GPL, with all functionality there. I could have much better functionality today, and better stability, and it would all be open. Instead I have to use proprietary code, because the alternative is an unusable system. This is ideology limiting my freedom. |