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From: walt <wa1ter@hotmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in non-free drivers?
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 13:46:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E18A7AA.9020005@hotmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.ff58bdv.193ou06@ifi.uio.no>

Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:

> "Dimitrie O. Paun"  writes:
>
>
> >  software. For how much money MS has, what have they innovated?
>
> Face it. Microsoft Software is what made the breakthrough to really
> put a powerful machine in every home and allow the 2-5% of the owner
> base which are Linux users to get really cheap commodity hardware.

I think you are correct in this.  The dinosaurs had their day --
we all got our DNA from them -- and now they are gone.



       reply	other threads:[~2003-01-05 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.glgbuvv.1m1g1he@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.ff58bdv.193ou06@ifi.uio.no>
2003-01-05 21:46   ` walt [this message]
2003-01-07 22:30     ` Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in non-free drivers? Adrian Bunk
2003-01-02  1:37 Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers? Bill Huey
2003-01-02  2:57 ` Paul Jakma
2003-01-02  5:58   ` Bill Huey
2003-01-02  6:14     ` Mark Mielke
2003-01-03  3:32       ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-03  7:51         ` Mark Mielke
2003-01-03 20:30           ` Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in non-free drivers? Richard Stallman
2003-01-03 21:26             ` Larry McVoy
2003-01-03 21:27               ` Dimitrie O. Paun
2003-01-05 21:24                 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-01-05 22:08                   ` Eric Ortega
2003-01-05 22:34                   ` Ian Molton
2003-01-05 23:09                     ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-01-04  0:55               ` Shane R. Stixrud
2003-01-04  2:22                 ` Larry McVoy
2003-01-04  3:18                   ` Shane R. Stixrud
2003-01-04  3:18                     ` Matthew D. Pitts
2003-01-04  6:00                 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-01-04  7:34                   ` Mark Mielke
2003-01-04  7:45                     ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-04  8:36                     ` Werner Almesberger
2003-01-04  8:52                     ` Shane R. Stixrud
2003-01-04  9:16                       ` Mark Mielke
2003-01-04 21:47               ` Roman Zippel
2003-01-05 11:15               ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-01-04  1:19             ` Mark Mielke
2003-01-04 23:44               ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-05  1:32                 ` Mark Mielke
2003-01-06  3:25                   ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-06  3:25                   ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-05  2:22                 ` venom
2003-01-05  9:38                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-01-05 21:33               ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-01-05 22:10                 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-05 22:22                 ` Mark Mielke
2003-01-04  3:10             ` David Schwartz
2003-01-04 23:44               ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-05  0:17                 ` David Schwartz
2003-01-05  4:39                   ` Wolfgang Walter
2003-01-05  5:35                     ` David Schwartz
2003-01-06 16:24                       ` Wolfgang Walter
2003-01-06 22:04                         ` David Schwartz
2003-01-07  0:08                           ` Steven Barnhart
2003-01-07 15:53                           ` Georg Nikodym
2003-01-07 18:05                             ` Mike Galbraith
2003-01-05 21:46                     ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-01-05 22:06                       ` David Schwartz
2003-01-05 21:17             ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-01-05 22:44               ` Alan Cox
2003-01-05 22:45                 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-01-05 23:03                   ` Xavier Bestel
2003-01-05 23:40                   ` Alan Cox

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