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From: Greg KH <gregkh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] trial software in portage?
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 09:17:47
Message-Id: 20070516084345.GB20511@kroah.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] trial software in portage? by Roy Marples
1 On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 08:36:27AM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
2 > On Wed, 16 May 2007 00:25:22 -0700
3 > Greg KH <gregkh@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:10:22AM -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
6 > > >
7 > > > We also have *tons* of other commercial software in the tree.
8 > >
9 > > Exactly, I don't understand the problem here.
10 > >
11 > > /me votes to remove vmware
12 > >
13 > > Yeah, like that will ever happen :)
14 >
15 > Bet you wouldn't mind if the nVidia and ATI drivers got punted though,
16 > eh?
17
18 Not in the slightest :)
19
20 And the load of wifi drivers that are also not OpenSource.
21
22 See, I bet people didn't really think through that whole "no closed
23 source packages in the tree" statement, now did they...
24
25 thanks,
26
27 greg k-h
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