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Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> writes: >Ahh, but replicated effort is something that open source people >do very well at indeed. If nvidia provided non-functional GPL >source code with all the proprietary 3rd party bits ripped out, >I would expect a hoard of developers would jump at the chance to >fixup the non-functional mess, clean it up, reimplement all the >missing proprietary bits. I'd bet you $20 US we could have a >functional driver within 2 weeks. And have a high quality driver >roughly equal to their proprietary one within 6 months. Thats >the way things work around these parts of the net. I bought a Ahhh, yes. I know. Replace "nvidia" with "netscape" and "driver" with "browser" and reread your paragraph. I remember having read exactly the same thing when netscape told us that they will "open the source to the navigator". And where were we six months later? Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- Geschaeftsfuehrer INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH hps@intermeta.de Am Schwabachgrund 22 Fon.: 09131 / 50654-0 info@intermeta.de D-91054 Buckenhof Fax.: 09131 / 50654-20 - 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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