Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: Hi,
>> Good luck with that, it's been tried already with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() >> and people still do work around that. > > That is probably copyright infringement. Maybe, maybe not. Nobody actually really knows. > It sounds like you should really be using ESX/vSphere on the host, > rather than VMware Server on Debian. I mean, VMware Server is basically > demo-ware. That's VMware Player/Workstation running on workstations, not servers, actually. So no, we don't need ESX/vSphere. > Where are your bug reports on nouveau? I don't think there is any value in reporting that an nVidia card that was released last month doesn't work with nouveau. I think the nouveau folks do know it's not supported without me telling them. > Binary-only drivers for Linux are generally copyright infringements. If Says you. Again, nobody really knows. Some may very well be infringing copyrights, sure. > we break them: good. (I know nvidia provides a Linux-specific stub as > source and it might be an exception to this.) You can be assured that I share your feelings towards binary-only drivers. >> I'm pretty disappointed by the way you're handling this; it feels like >> you have little care for what your users actually need. > > We do, just not all of what *you* (one of our users) want. Yeah, I'm probably the only Debian folk out there that has to support a thousand workstations with VMware. We should definitely move to RedHat, or something. JB. -- Julien BLACHE <jbla...@debian.org> | Debian, because code matters more Debian & GNU/Linux Developer | <http://www.debian.org> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
