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

Tomas Szepe
2003-01-05T22:49:52Z

> [hps@intermeta.de]
>
> The original statement was
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> "Microsoft making 370 times more than RedHat says _nothing_ about
> their actual achievement in terms of software development."
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And it holds true, because

1) A huge part of RedHat's work in software development goes into free
(as in beer) software, which skews the better_product<->higher_revenue
correlation vigorously.

2) better_product<->higher_revenue doesn't work terribly well when the
market is dominated by a monopoly, does it?

3) Microsoft doesn't only sell software.

...

Don't make me come up with more. Larry's comparison is totally laughable
if it is to support the thesis "Microsoft has achieved much more in software
development than RedHat."

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Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>