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

Richard Stallman
2003-01-04T23:38:07Z

> The clear part of your statement is your attitude toward our
> community. You express derision for the very idea of asking a company
> to contribute to free software. We are fortunate that Netscape, Sun,
> and IBM, and the people who won their partial cooperation, did not
> take your advice.

News flash: it's a well documented fact that there was nobody at Sun who
before or since has spent as much time as I have trying to free up Sun's
code.

Please tell your earlier self that I appreciate his work, and that I
am glad that that the opposition expressed in your previous message
did not deter him from doing it.