From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 05:42:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 05:42:55 -0500 Received: from mail.hometree.net ([212.34.181.120]:61917 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 05:42:54 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: forge.intermeta.de!not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers? Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:51:38 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: References: <20030103040612.GA10651@work.bitmover.com> <20030104220651.GA30907@merlin.emma.line.org> <20030104222330.GA1386@work.bitmover.com> <20030105221345.GA31840@mark.mielke.cc> <20030106173949.GA1712@gnuppy.monkey.org> <20030107141758.GA10770@gnuppy.monkey.org> <20030108115327.GA5020@gnuppy.monkey.org> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 1042195898 1667 212.34.181.4 (10 Jan 2003 10:51:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:51:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2002 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 (NOV) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Richard Stallman writes: >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 Open Source != Free Software. Else Microsoft would be part of the "free software community", because they open up their sources, too. There is "free software (free as in free beer)" which is not open sourced. As you build most of your assumptions on this, this is where you whole logic breaks down. Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- Geschaeftsfuehrer INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH hps@intermeta.de Am Schwabachgrund 22 Fon.: 09131 / 50654-0 info@intermeta.de D-91054 Buckenhof Fax.: 09131 / 50654-20