2003-01-05 21:37:44

by walt

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Subject: Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in non-free drivers?

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.



2003-01-07 22:21:54

by Adrian Bunk

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Subject: Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in non-free drivers?

On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:46:18PM -0800, walt wrote:

>... The dinosaurs had their day --
> we all got our DNA from them -- and now they are gone.

(completely OT)

This is wrong. We didn't got our DNA from the dinosaurs. The split
in the evolution between the ancestors of the dinosaurs and our
ancestors happened many million years before the great time of the
dinosaurs.

cu
Adrian

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