Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Jan 2003 12:39:09 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers? |
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> The clear part of your statement is your attitude toward our > community. You express derision for the very idea of asking a company > to contribute to free software. We are fortunate that Netscape, Sun, > and IBM, and the people who won their partial cooperation, did not > take your advice.
News flash: it's a well documented fact that there was nobody at Sun who before or since has spent as much time as I have trying to free up Sun's code.
Take a look at http://www.bitmover.com/lm/papers/srcos.html which Bob Young credits as having a large influence on how Red Hat was set up, also well documented.
Tell me again that I don't understand free software and that I'm against it and all you do is make yourself look even more foolish. Whether you want to resemble one of the wackos on soapbox in Hyde Park is up to you, but that's what you look like. -- --- 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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