Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 03:42:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 03:42:40 -0500 Received: from mail.hometree.net ([212.34.181.120]:38558 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 03:42:39 -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: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 08:51:07 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: References: <20030102013736.GA2708@gnuppy.monkey.org> <20030102061233.GA20916@codepoet.org> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 1041497467 22739 212.34.181.4 (2 Jan 2003 08:51:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 08:51:07 +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 Content-Length: 1420 Lines: 28 Erik Andersen writes: >Ahh, but replicated effort is something that open source people >do very well at indeed. If nvidia provided non-functional GPL >source code with all the proprietary 3rd party bits ripped out, >I would expect a hoard of developers would jump at the chance to >fixup the non-functional mess, clean it up, reimplement all the >missing proprietary bits. I'd bet you $20 US we could have a >functional driver within 2 weeks. And have a high quality driver >roughly equal to their proprietary one within 6 months. Thats >the way things work around these parts of the net. I bought a Ahhh, yes. I know. Replace "nvidia" with "netscape" and "driver" with "browser" and reread your paragraph. I remember having read exactly the same thing when netscape told us that they will "open the source to the navigator". And where were we six months later? 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/