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[Les Mikesell]

Anders Karlsson wrote:

>> What Les would like is a Fedora on a more stable (as in driver/module INTERNAL 
>> API).
>>
>> The discussion always seems to morph here, for some reason.  CentOS/RHEL 
>> provide API stability (in general) across the entire OS, down to the version 
>> numbers.  Fedora doesn't provide this, for any package, including the kernel.  
>> The kernel's module/driver INTERNAL interface changes regularly, sometimes 
>> for no good reason it seems.  
>>
>> This is an upstream kernel development problem, not a Fedora one.
> 
> Agreed, which is why I earlier in the thread suggested that the
> discussion would be better off on the LKML, where the kernel people
> that makes those decisions could explain it to the people arguing the
> point about this.

No, the kernel people are and should be free to write total garbage. The 
distributions shouldn't ship that to unsuspecting users, though.

>> FOSS and proprietary software are not and will not be mutually exclusive, 
>> despite some folks misplaced idealism.
> 
> There is a distinction to be made. When you talk about proprietary,
> closed source, drivers - then people should be aware that they not
> just may, they *will*, get strong reactions.

I happen to love my 1st gen tivo.   I suppose you'll try to tell me its 
a bad thing that they exist.

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   Les Mikesell
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