Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Jan 2003 20:06:12 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers? |
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On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 10:32:30PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > But we could make do with even less cooperation than that. If they > just provide the necessary specs to a person who wants to extend the > free drivers that exist, that would be sufficient.
Yeah, if only the company that has invested millions in trying to scratch out a place to stand, if only they would give us their intellectual property for free, if only, why then we could steal that IP and give it to other people. And it would take us less time to do it if they would only cooperate. Why won't they cooperate?
How dare they not give of the fruits of their labors for free.
Give it up, Stallman, we live in a capitalistic world. The Russians tried communism and it didn't work. It won't work here either, the kernel folks aren't that stupid. Some people actually do learn from history. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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