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Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 11:29:39 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers?
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On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 08:39:55AM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> IMHO such freedom should leave the option of not having free
> drivers to companies like Nvidia.
> 
> Mind you that their freedom is more than compensated for by
> our freedom to decide to not buy their hardware and use hardware
> which does have free drivers instead.
> 
> Have some faith in freedom, Richard...

The real issue about freedom is that people should be able to use
parts of the GNU systems without having to add a GNU/ prefix to all
their naming schemes.. :)

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