Z:gnu-www-ja-google-engineering-talk--ccb258-Linus Torvalds is still workin/en

Linus Torvalds is still working on developing Linux. {which is, you know} Developing the kernel was an important contribution to our community. At the same time, he is setting a very public bad example by using a non-free program to do the job. Now, if he were using a non-free program privately, I would never even have heard about it and I wouldn't make a fuss about it. But by inviting the other people who work on Linux to use it with him, he's setting a very public example legitimizing the use of non-free software. So when people see that, you know, if they think that's okay, they can't possibly believe that non-free software is bad. So then, when these companies say, "yes, {we support} our hardware supports Linux, here is this binary-only driver you can install, and then it will work," these people see nothing wrong in that, so they don't apply their market pressure and they don't feel motivated to help in reverse engineering.