Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Sep 1998 17:03:57 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Linux, UDI and SCO. |
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Hi!
> The other obvious reason that SCO wants UDI to succeed is that Linux > has tonnes of drivers and SCO does not, and SCO wants to invent some > plausible way of leeching off the Linux drivers.
Even with UDI, SCO can not use Linux drivers: linux drivers _have to_ be GPL in order to link with kernel. And unless SCO is going GPL, they can not link with GPL code... (Unless they find way to insert GPL code as a module - that might be legal.)
Pavel -- The best software in life is free (not shareware)! Pavel GCM d? s-: !g p?:+ au- a--@ w+ v- C++@ UL+++ L++ N++ E++ W--- M- Y- R+
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