When is the Last Time You Booted to Windows?

[Mike McCarty]

Andy Green wrote:
> 
> The manufacturers accept such restrictions only because they know a
> binary-only distribution is acceptable, for example, in the Windows
> world.  At the edges already Linux challenges this assumption (because
> the benefits using it brings outweigh the risk from loss of obfuscation
> of the code) and can bring about change.  So it isn't enough to consider
> the situation as it is, one also needs to consider what Linux can make
> be by its policies towards closed source modules.
> 
> I don't buy the story that certain classes of device can never have open
> source drivers regardless of all considerations.  If Linux is desirable

Who argued this? I haven't seen this argument.

> enough to become a no questions design-in, then it will impact decisions
> all around it and that can be in a positive way.

Mike
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