Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Jan 2003 17:13:45 -0500 | From | Mark Mielke <> | Subject | Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers? |
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On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:34:01PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > Linux is a copy of Unix. There is very little new stuff in Linux. > This is no coincidence. GNU/Linux parallels Unix because I chose that > design in 1983. It is foolish to focus on innovation when you are > starting a race with a multi-year handicap. The first task is to > catch up.
You *chose* GNU/Linux to parallel Unix? I assume you mean that you influenced GNU into using a Unix base with the eventual goal of having some sort of GNU Unix base (the Hurd?). The words you selected above are rather assuming.
> You get the idea. Sun makes more in 2 days than Red Hat makes all year. > This is very significant if money is your main goal. Both GNU and > Linux exist because of people who have different priorities.
Development costs resources. GNU has benefitted substantially from resources offered for free by people that have other (usually non-GPL or non-open source) means of putting food on the table. Respect this.
mark
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