Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers?

Gerhard Mack
2003-01-02T17:24:46Z

Hes trolling... these sorts of things are such a muddy mess in the US that
it's a coin toss whether any lawsuit will win.

He should stop talking about it and just do it and in the meantime
us would be better off just black holing his email. I doubt hes going to
go through with it and I question how much money someone who has to get
his internet access off a TV settop box really has enough money to pay for
the planned lawsuit anyhow.

Can we all stop feeding the trolls now?

Gerhard

cat >> ~/.procmailrc << _END_
:0 W
* ^X-Mailing-List.*linux-kernel@vger\.kernel\.org
* ^(((From):)|( )).*Hell.Surfers@cwctv\.net
/dev/null

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On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Milosz Tanski wrote:

> Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 02:06:44 -0500
> From: Milosz Tanski <mtanski@wideopenwest.com>
> To: Hell.Surfers@cwctv.net.billh@gnuppy.monkey.org, paul@clubi.ie,
> riel@conectiva.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rms@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source
> drivers?
>
> Well, i dunno how i got drawed into to (well i do). Your right, but i'm
> just trying to find a usefull solution for me having to download and
> shift though a ~500kb discussion leading noware (drawing my conclusion
> from the past here). I don't think Hell.Surfers is going to accomplish
> anything here, besides angering a whole bunch of people (am i right?).
> Sooner or later, some one is going to come up with the idea of
> --attempting to-- banning him from the mailing list (just like RMS
> before), and thats again accompilished nothing. And damn it, i'd love to
> have opensource (or freesoftware, whatever the politicaly correct thing
> is :) ) nvidia drivers, so i could attempt to fix the Twin view
> flakinies, have the nvidia drivers use the kernel nvidia fb, and have
> dual head console, etc.
>

--
Gerhard Mack

gmack@innerfire.net

<>< As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.