Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Jan 2003 08:39:55 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers? |
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On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Richard Stallman wrote:
> We developed the GNU system for the sake of freedom, and freedom is > what really matters.
IMHO such freedom should leave the option of not having free drivers to companies like Nvidia.
Mind you that their freedom is more than compensated for by our freedom to decide to not buy their hardware and use hardware which does have free drivers instead.
Have some faith in freedom, Richard...
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