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Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:03:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
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Subject: Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers?
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On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, David Schwartz wrote:

> 	I don't expect anyone to GPL unless they think they get more benefit from 
> GPLing than the potential harm done. People GPL code because they want to 
> 'donate' it to improve the open source movement, community, and code base. 
> Attempting to arm twist such donations is worse than foolish. You think the 
> open source community should be a bunch of bullies? Convince people open 
> source is best, and avoid them if they don't agree.

Certainly anyone who has had a problem, posted an oops, and been told that
no one will even look at a dump from a system with the nvidia driver might
think they were being bullied... 

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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