[Info-vax] RMS intro

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On Wed, 2024-01-03 at 19:01 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> > That's true but it is a source of considerable pain for commercial
> > products such as VMware, VirtualBox, ZFS and others. They all have
> > to devote substantial engineering resources to release updates for
> > every kernel release.
> 
> The usual recommendation is that they should contribute the necessary
> drivers to the mainline Linux kernel--along with a commitment to keep
> maintaining them.
> 
> Microsoft discovered this the hard way, when it got some Hyper-V
> drivers accepted into the kernel, and then forgot about the part that
> every piece of code in the kernel has to have a responsive
> maintainer. It took the threat of the code being dropped from the
> kernel to make them sit up and take notice.

It's the same old story, costs != profit and beancounters are not
always right.
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Tactical Nuclear Kittens