| Date | Fri, 3 Jan 2003 11:29:39 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers? |
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On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 08:39:55AM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > 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...
The real issue about freedom is that people should be able to use parts of the GNU systems without having to add a GNU/ prefix to all their naming schemes.. :)
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