Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:03:14 -0500 (EST) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers? |
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On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, David Schwartz wrote:
> I don't expect anyone to GPL unless they think they get more benefit from > GPLing than the potential harm done. People GPL code because they want to > 'donate' it to improve the open source movement, community, and code base. > Attempting to arm twist such donations is worse than foolish. You think the > open source community should be a bunch of bullies? Convince people open > source is best, and avoid them if they don't agree.
Certainly anyone who has had a problem, posted an oops, and been told that no one will even look at a dump from a system with the nvidia driver might think they were being bullied...
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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