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From: Tonnerre <tonnerre@thundrix.ch>
To: Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault <joe@dastyle.net>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
	Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>,
	"David N. Welton" <davidw@dedasys.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux Incompatibility List
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 17:25:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040822152554.GE19768@thundrix.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41282F4C.9060305@dastyle.net>

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Salut,

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:29:48AM -0400, Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault wrote:
> Vendors should understand that ACTUALLY supporting linux means adopting 
> 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)

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-22 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-21 19:41 Linux Incompatibility List David N. Welton
2004-08-21 20:16 ` Joseph Pingenot
2004-08-21 20:20   ` Wakko Warner
2004-08-21 20:31     ` Lee Revell
2004-08-21 20:51       ` Wakko Warner
2004-08-21 21:06         ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-08-21 21:11           ` Lee Revell
2004-08-21 21:16           ` Lee Revell
2004-08-22 14:30           ` Tonnerre
2004-08-22 14:45             ` Michael Buesch
2004-08-24 15:17             ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-08-24 17:41               ` Michael Buesch
2004-08-21 21:18         ` Francois Romieu
2004-08-21 22:01           ` Wakko Warner
2004-08-21 23:53         ` Andrew Miklas
2004-08-23  3:54           ` Gianni Tedesco
2004-08-25  5:59             ` Andrew Miklas
2004-08-25  7:21               ` Gianni Tedesco
2004-08-29  1:42                 ` Andrew Miklas
2004-08-29  3:21                   ` Gianni Tedesco
2004-08-29 21:04                     ` Andrew Miklas
2004-08-22  5:29       ` Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault
2004-08-22  1:56         ` James Courtier-Dutton
2004-08-22  6:36           ` Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault
2004-08-22  4:15             ` Kyle Moffett
2004-08-22  5:58               ` Lee Revell
2004-08-22  8:05               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-08-22 12:07                 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-08-22 12:32                   ` Gene Heskett
2004-08-24 21:30               ` Hamie
2004-08-22 15:25         ` Tonnerre [this message]
2004-08-22 11:10       ` Alan Cox
2004-08-22 12:42         ` Dave Jones
2004-08-23  6:31           ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-08-21 21:20     ` David N. Welton
2004-08-21 22:03       ` Wakko Warner
2004-08-22  0:18         ` Rutger Nijlunsing
2004-08-21 20:22   ` David N. Welton
2004-08-22 11:14 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-22 15:08   ` Joseph Pingenot
2004-08-22 20:48   ` David N. Welton
2004-08-22 20:45     ` Alan Cox
2004-08-23 20:45       ` cliff white
     [not found] ` <200408221045.29316.mbuesch@freenet.de>
2004-08-22 20:34   ` David N. Welton
2004-08-22 21:24     ` David N. Welton
2004-08-25  7:41 ` Helge Hafting
2004-08-25  7:49   ` David N. Welton
2004-08-31  7:28     ` Helge Hafting
2004-08-31 10:21       ` David N. Welton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-22  4:19 linux
2004-08-22 13:05 ` Wakko Warner
2004-08-22 16:43   ` Horst von Brand
2004-08-22 22:42     ` Robin Rosenberg

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