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On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Dan Egli wrote:

> them. Are the absolute best cards? No. Do they have every legal right to 
> publish drivers the way they do? Yes.

well... that isnt actually very clear. AIUI, they rely on informal
exceptions made by Linus (in posts to l-k) to the kernel's licence
re: exported interfaces and binary modules.

regards,
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