Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 13:55:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 13:55:09 -0500 Received: from astound-64-85-224-253.ca.astound.net ([64.85.224.253]:25607 "EHLO master.linux-ide.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 13:55:08 -0500 Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 11:02:54 -0800 (PST) From: Andre Hedrick To: Jon Portnoy cc: Andrew Walrond , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 813 Lines: 24 On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Jon Portnoy wrote: > You don't understand "free" in this context. You're talking about free as > in price, we're talking about free as in freedom. > > Educate yourself, then come back and discuss freedom. How about understanding "freedom" has a price and that price is not "free". The price is to do it yourself, or pay someone else to do it. Regardless there are associated costs, so the context is correct. You choose stop at the idea of "freedom" no the cost of granting the "freedom". Regards, Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group - 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/