Fedora - DELL ?

[Claude Jones]

On Thu March 15 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
> The taint message is there so the kernel developers know which bug
> reports they can ignore because only the binary module vendor has all the
> source code needed to fix them. It also taints in different ways if you
> force various things, if a memory error is detected and the like to help
> classify bugs.
>
> If we wanted to enforce arbitary control over what you stick in the kernel
> we'd have implemented digitally signed modules and code that keeps going
> back over the kernel making sure it hasn't been adjusted and each block
> still checksums the same - like say Vista does.

I would like some clarification. Is the above what the whole dispute is about? 
A warning message? 

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Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA