Messages in this thread | | | From | Richard Stallman <> | Subject | Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers? | Date | Sat, 04 Jan 2003 18:44:51 -0500 |
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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.
Please tell your earlier self that I appreciate his work, and that I am glad that that the opposition expressed in your previous message did not deter him from doing it.
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