Resisting the binary blob
14th Nov 2006, 17:20 GMT
Last week, LWN pointed at a software review claiming that Fedora Core 6 was so bad that the whole distribution should simply be shut down. The failing which led to such a dire prescription was a lack of proprietary software. Other voices have been raised to this effect as well: if Linux is to continue to grow, it must get over its dedication to free software and incorporate binary blobs. Your editor thinks that view is mistaken; click below (subscribers only) for the full article.
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