What did you expect them to say?  Linux is a huge part of what we do?<p>Here&#x27;s how I see it.  Vmkernel has a driver API.  It&#x27;s documented, versioned, comes with a ddk and has drivers written directly to it.<p>As we all know, Linux basically has driver apis.  They are not as explicit as the vmkernel driver apis; they are not versioned and deliberately unstable - but if you&#x27;ve written a line of kernel code you know they are there.<p>Now it seems it is OK to ship a binary blob driver that links against Linux driver apis.  Nvidia, ati, lots of arm type boards and now zfs.  I say seems because, well, so far everyone has pretty much gone along with it.  In some of the comments on zfs, I see people go as far to say that the Linux driver APIs are tacitly considered lgpl (ie. similar to why you can ship a binary against glibc - although obviously glibc has made the exception explicit)<p>Can I do the reverse?  Implement a GPL licensed wrapper that converts the Linux driver API to one provided by a binary blob (ie. what vmklinux does talking to vmkernel) and thus use the drivers?<p>I don&#x27;t know, I think it&#x27;s a good question to find an answer to.