Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 10:31:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 10:31:53 -0500 Received: from mail.hometree.net ([212.34.181.120]:19143 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 10:31:53 -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: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 15:40:23 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: References: <0eca95832050213DTVMAIL1@smtp.cwctv.net> <027801c2b328$58520830$6400a8c0@twister> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 1041608423 30341 212.34.181.4 (3 Jan 2003 15:40:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 15:40:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2002 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 (NOV) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1042 Lines: 25 "NEURONET" writes: >> im currently picking a solicitor, NVidia will either win or lose, if I lose, M$ win > may soon be a lot like Linux. >If you lose, you also create a precedent case >what REALLY offensive cases could make use of >in the future. >(I'd advise re-reading Antigone from Sophokles >before starting your Holy Battle...) Come on, "Hells.Surfer" might watch the video but he wouldn't even understand half of the words used in that book. And he might even miss the punch line. =%-) 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/