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

Vlad@Vlad.geekizoid.com
2003-01-10T00:04:07Z

Double Plus Good Richard, Double Plus Good.

"Withers, however, was already an unperson. He did not exist: he had never
existed." -- George Orwell's 1984

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

There is no such thing as an open source community. The people who
founded the open source movement in 1998, and the people who support
it now, are part of the free software community. (We in the free
software movement built the community in the 80s with our determined
effort.)