From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267461AbUHVP3n (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 11:29:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267465AbUHVP3n (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 11:29:43 -0400 Received: from pauli.thundrix.ch ([213.239.201.101]:20131 "EHLO pauli.thundrix.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267461AbUHVP3k (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 11:29:40 -0400 Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 17:25:54 +0200 From: Tonnerre To: Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault Cc: Lee Revell , Wakko Warner , "David N. Welton" , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Linux Incompatibility List Message-ID: <20040822152554.GE19768@thundrix.ch> References: <87r7q0th2n.fsf@dedasys.com> <20040821201632.GA7622@digitasaru.net> <20040821202058.GA9218@animx.eu.org> <1093120274.854.145.camel@krustophenia.net> <41282F4C.9060305@dastyle.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hwvH6HDNit2nSK4j" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41282F4C.9060305@dastyle.net> X-GPG-KeyID: 0x8BE1C38D X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1AB0 9AD6 D0C8 B9D5 C5C9 9C2A FF86 CBEE 8BE1 C38D X-GPG-KeyURL: http://users.thundrix.ch/~tonnerre/tonnerre.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040803i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --hwvH6HDNit2nSK4j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Salut, On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:29:48AM -0400, Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault wrot= e: > Vendors should understand that ACTUALLY supporting linux means adopting= =20 > the free software philosophy. Actually look at what happened when the probing part of the NVidia driver was published: people looked at it and fixed bugs. Opensourcing a driver can actually be a benefit for the company, since they don't need to pay some maintainer for it then plus they won't need to put up with problems after kernel changes and stuff and neither with bugs in the code. The problem is that people still think that there is intelectual property and that it can be stolen. (The famous blackbird case (Yes, I said the B word!)) But look at UNESCO: maybe one day the world will be different. Tonnerre (Part-time UN coworker) --hwvH6HDNit2nSK4j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.9.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBKLsA/4bL7ovhw40RAt8FAJ4mHf/BS36YlGFpAkrdm4cMd2wypwCfTX7B 6Cz6OsVRtagGjAYKJsS5M+U= =piey -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hwvH6HDNit2nSK4j--