From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: s.schmidt@avm.de, torvalds@osdl.org, kkeil@suse.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, opensuse-factory@opensuse.org,
libusb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: 2.6.16 serious consequences / GPL_EXPORT_SYMBOL / USB drivers of major vendor excluded
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:34:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060219153426.17a26d2b.skraw@ithnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060217230004.GA15492@kroah.com>
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:00:04 -0800
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 03:24:44PM +0100, s.schmidt@avm.de wrote:
> > As a private corporation our primary focus is market relevance. AVM
> > invested more than 10 years of work to make analog services like Fax G3 and
> > analog modem emulation available to users of the digital ISDN network. The
> > situation is similar for the DSL part of the driver with very complex DSP
> > algorithms. To anticipate any "open vs. closed source" discussion:Only a
> > handful of companies worldwide have such know-how. With regard to our
> > competitive situation, we have to protect our hard-won intellectual
> > property and therefore cannot open the closed source part of the driver.
I am fine with that. I prefer stable GPL-drivers anyway, no need to use
yours...
Regards,
Stephan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-19 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200601200904.00389.dazzle.digital@gmail.com>
2006-02-03 16:24 ` 2.6.16 serious consequences / GPL_EXPORT_SYMBOL / USB drivers of major vendor excluded s.schmidt
2006-02-03 22:50 ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-04 16:27 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-02-04 19:24 ` Jan Kiszka
2006-02-09 15:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-05 20:53 ` Greg KH
2006-02-16 14:24 ` Re[2]: " s.schmidt
2006-02-16 14:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-16 19:49 ` [opensuse-factory] " Robert Schiele
2006-02-16 22:09 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2006-02-16 22:51 ` Karsten Keil
2006-02-17 23:00 ` Greg KH
2006-02-19 14:34 ` Stephan von Krawczynski [this message]
2006-03-06 12:47 ` Re[2]: " s.schmidt
2006-03-06 17:05 ` Greg KH
2006-03-06 21:09 ` [Libusb-devel] " Michael Bender
2006-03-06 22:02 ` Greg KH
2006-03-07 7:42 ` [opensuse-factory] Re[2]: " Silviu Marin-Caea
2006-03-07 22:10 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-07 23:37 ` Matthias Andree
2006-03-08 0:55 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-08 1:39 ` Douglas McNaught
2006-02-18 2:42 ` Lee Revell
2006-02-19 4:57 ` Sasha Khapyorsky
2006-02-19 17:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-02-20 3:11 ` Sasha Khapyorsky
2006-02-20 6:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-02-19 16:25 ` Re[2]: " Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-19 3:09 ` Anton Blanchard
2006-02-19 3:20 ` Greg KH
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