RE: Digi Neo 8: linux-2.6.12_r2 jsm driver

From: Kilau, Scott (Scott_Kilau_at_digi.com)
Date: 04/12/05

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To: "Matt Mackall" <mpm@selenic.com>

    Hi Matt,

    The ball is in my court, because my wishes as a copyright holder are not
    being honored.

    Which is the right of Christoph because of the GPL, but it sure doesn't
    help the end
    users of said product.
    Your claim that you are trying to "help" end users is bogus and just
    plain wrong.
    Period.

    > As such, we make very little allowance
    > for their concerns, especially when they stand in
    > the way of improving things that _are_ in the kernel.

    How is shipping a stripped down version of the driver, by yanking things
    our customers want, improving the "things that are in the kernel"?

    At any rate,
    After thinking about this some more, I actually don't believe all this
    will
    be a problem on my end after all.

    When the user installs my driver with all the extra features that our
    customers
    really want, I will simply check to see if jsm.ko exists, and ask the
    user if I
    can blow away the jsm.ko module.

    So now, I think this thread can probably die a peaceful death.

    Scott
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