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3Kernel Driver Statement
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6Position Statement on Linux Kernel Modules
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10We, the undersigned Linux kernel developers, consider any closed-source
11Linux kernel module or driver to be harmful and undesirable. We have
12repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses, and
13the greater Linux ecosystem. Such modules negate the openness,
14stability, flexibility, and maintainability of the Linux development
15model and shut their users off from the expertise of the Linux
16community. Vendors that provide closed-source kernel modules force their
17customers to give up key Linux advantages or choose new vendors.
18Therefore, in order to take full advantage of the cost savings and
19shared support benefits open source has to offer, we urge vendors to
20adopt a policy of supporting their customers on Linux with open-source
21kernel code.
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23We speak only for ourselves, and not for any company we might work for
24today, have in the past, or will in the future.
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26 - Dave Airlie
27 - Nick Andrew
28 - Jens Axboe
29 - Ralf Baechle
30 - Felipe Balbi
31 - Ohad Ben-Cohen
32 - Muli Ben-Yehuda
33 - Jiri Benc
34 - Arnd Bergmann
35 - Thomas Bogendoerfer
36 - Vitaly Bordug
37 - James Bottomley
38 - Josh Boyer
39 - Neil Brown
40 - Mark Brown
41 - David Brownell
42 - Michael Buesch
43 - Franck Bui-Huu
44 - Adrian Bunk
45 - François Cami
46 - Ralph Campbell
47 - Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
48 - Mauro Carvalho Chehab
49 - Denis Cheng
50 - Jonathan Corbet
51 - Glauber Costa
52 - Alan Cox
53 - Magnus Damm
54 - Ahmed S. Darwish
55 - Robert P. J. Day
56 - Hans de Goede
57 - Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
58 - Helge Deller
59 - Jean Delvare
60 - Mathieu Desnoyers
61 - Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
62 - Alexey Dobriyan
63 - Daniel Drake
64 - Alex Dubov
65 - Randy Dunlap
66 - Michael Ellerman
67 - Pekka Enberg
68 - Jan Engelhardt
69 - Mark Fasheh
70 - J. Bruce Fields
71 - Larry Finger
72 - Jeremy Fitzhardinge
73 - Mike Frysinger
74 - Kumar Gala
75 - Robin Getz
76 - Liam Girdwood
77 - Jan-Benedict Glaw
78 - Thomas Gleixner
79 - Brice Goglin
80 - Cyrill Gorcunov
81 - Andy Gospodarek
82 - Thomas Graf
83 - Krzysztof Halasa
84 - Harvey Harrison
85 - Stephen Hemminger
86 - Michael Hennerich
87 - Tejun Heo
88 - Benjamin Herrenschmidt
89 - Kristian Høgsberg
90 - Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
91 - Marcel Holtmann
92 - Mike Isely
93 - Takashi Iwai
94 - Olof Johansson
95 - Dave Jones
96 - Jesper Juhl
97 - Matthias Kaehlcke
98 - Kenji Kaneshige
99 - Jan Kara
100 - Jeremy Kerr
101 - Russell King
102 - Olaf Kirch
103 - Roel Kluin
104 - Hans-Jürgen Koch
105 - Auke Kok
106 - Peter Korsgaard
107 - Jiri Kosina
108 - Aaro Koskinen
109 - Mariusz Kozlowski
110 - Greg Kroah-Hartman
111 - Michael Krufky
112 - Aneesh Kumar
113 - Clemens Ladisch
114 - Christoph Lameter
115 - Gunnar Larisch
116 - Anders Larsen
117 - Grant Likely
118 - John W. Linville
119 - Yinghai Lu
120 - Tony Luck
121 - Pavel Machek
122 - Matt Mackall
123 - Paul Mackerras
124 - Roland McGrath
125 - Patrick McHardy
126 - Kyle McMartin
127 - Paul Menage
128 - Thierry Merle
129 - Eric Miao
130 - Akinobu Mita
131 - Ingo Molnar
132 - James Morris
133 - Andrew Morton
134 - Paul Mundt
135 - Oleg Nesterov
136 - Luca Olivetti
137 - S.Çağlar Onur
138 - Pierre Ossman
139 - Keith Owens
140 - Venkatesh Pallipadi
141 - Nick Piggin
142 - Nicolas Pitre
143 - Evgeniy Polyakov
144 - Richard Purdie
145 - Mike Rapoport
146 - Sam Ravnborg
147 - Gerrit Renker
148 - Stefan Richter
149 - David Rientjes
150 - Luis R. Rodriguez
151 - Stefan Roese
152 - Francois Romieu
153 - Rami Rosen
154 - Stephen Rothwell
155 - Maciej W. Rozycki
156 - Mark Salyzyn
157 - Yoshinori Sato
158 - Deepak Saxena
159 - Holger Schurig
160 - Amit Shah
161 - Yoshihiro Shimoda
162 - Sergei Shtylyov
163 - Kay Sievers
164 - Sebastian Siewior
165 - Rik Snel
166 - Jes Sorensen
167 - Alexey Starikovskiy
168 - Alan Stern
169 - Timur Tabi
170 - Hirokazu Takata
171 - Eliezer Tamir
172 - Eugene Teo
173 - Doug Thompson
174 - FUJITA Tomonori
175 - Dmitry Torokhov
176 - Marcelo Tosatti
177 - Steven Toth
178 - Theodore Tso
179 - Matthias Urlichs
180 - Geert Uytterhoeven
181 - Arjan van de Ven
182 - Ivo van Doorn
183 - Rik van Riel
184 - Wim Van Sebroeck
185 - Hans Verkuil
186 - Horst H. von Brand
187 - Dmitri Vorobiev
188 - Anton Vorontsov
189 - Daniel Walker
190 - Johannes Weiner
191 - Harald Welte
192 - Matthew Wilcox
193 - Dan J. Williams
194 - Darrick J. Wong
195 - David Woodhouse
196 - Chris Wright
197 - Bryan Wu
198 - Rafael J. Wysocki
199 - Herbert Xu
200 - Vlad Yasevich
201 - Peter Zijlstra
202 - Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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