From: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>
To: Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in non-freedrivers?
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 22:37:07 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030107043707.GB10045@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E1A16A5.8070903@walrond.org>
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 11:52:05PM +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> >But if that doesn't work for you, I would not consider it a great loss
> >for the world if your products were not produced. They contribute
> >something to the world if they are free software, but otherwise not.
>
> Perhaps not. But my 40 software developing staff are still going to be
> mightily pissed when I don't make payroll.
Given that 90% of software development is reinventing the wheel (badly),
perhaps 36 of them could move on to a career doing something useful.
--
"Love the dolphins," she advised him. "Write by W.A.S.T.E.."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-07 4:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-05 0:11 Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in non-freedrivers? Steven Barnhart
2003-01-06 3:26 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-06 9:50 ` Andrew Walrond
2003-01-06 20:50 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-06 21:13 ` Mark Mielke
2003-01-06 23:52 ` Andrew Walrond
2003-01-07 4:37 ` Oliver Xymoron [this message]
2003-01-07 18:44 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-07 19:08 ` Disconnect
2003-01-06 23:58 ` Matthias Andree
2003-01-07 0:23 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-12 23:44 ` Matthias Andree
2003-01-13 0:28 ` Andre Hedrick
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2003-01-09 16:36 Edward Kuns
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