Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Jan 2003 15:19:19 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers? |
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On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 06:13:07PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > There is no such thing as an open source community.
Poof! And millions of people disappear at the bidding of the One True God, Richard Stallman.
Not.
> The GNU system, with Linux added, had a great deal of success, but
Please remember that Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds and your inclusion of "Linux" in "GNU/Linux" is covered by trademark law. Have you cleared that use with Linus?
> attributing that success entirely to Linux is a misinterpretation of > the events. > > Why do so many people misinterpret the events this way?
Maybe because their belief is a lot more valid than your belief?
Oh, since I have your attention, when are you going to issue a press release officially renaming Hurd to Linux/Hurd? -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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