God's Laundry Day
It reminded me of a summer squall--a nice, humid day suddenly replaced by black skies, blowing wind, and stinging rain, pummeling the ground by way of what my departed grandmother used to call "God's Laundry Day."
The discussion that broke out on the Linux kernel mailing list this week was just like a squall: a quiet technical discussion that suddenly grew into a deep conversation about the nature of the Linux kernel itself. Would the finest example of GPL software continue to allow proprietary software to be encoded within? The initial answer seemed to be yes.
Eventually, Linus Torvalds weighed in on the matter and in his blunt statements made everyone stop and think. Perhaps, was the conclusion reached, it is not a good idea to make a political stance when you are trying to get a good piece of software out the door. For the most part, the kernel developers seemed to agree with Torvalds, or at least agreed to let the matter lie, and the drive towards kernel 2.6.20 slowly started up again.
But the issue of whether proprietary device modules belong in the kernel is still unresolved. And it may be more complicated than just a group of freedom-lover wanting free software for its own sake.
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