Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 20:19:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 20:19:15 -0500 Received: from viefep14-int.chello.at ([213.46.255.13]:26384 "EHLO viefep14-int.chello.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 20:19:13 -0500 Message-ID: <0b0c01c2b390$7eb7ea40$6400a8c0@twister> From: "NEURONET" To: , References: Subject: Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers? Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 02:27:49 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1998 Lines: 44 From: "Billy Rose" > if i were a big monopolistic company that has recently (openly) began > to worry about the threat of linux taking some of my market share, i > would create an explosive topic on the kernel mailing list and begin > dividing up the developers using political agenda such as this. little > by little, the cracks in the foundation would start giving way to > larger debates. finally, simple ideology would create a divide that > causes the developers to choose "sides" and then fragmentation would > occur. the ultimate outcome: the unix syndrome. perhaps this is not > such a case, but it may as well be from what i have read. sometimes > not giving your opinion is worth more than winning a debate. think > about it. Interesting. OTOH, you ain't need nothing but plain evolution to see it happen: people thinking publicly on a mailing list like this one is just enough (and no "help" from a wicked monopolistic company is to be assumed ;) ). I believe it's a property of a topic itself, whether it's something for a long discussion, or something superfluous. A topic we kill each other for is interesting on its own right: it is both irrelevant and is only a matter of coincidence when and who happens to be the firestarter. If an important issue that has the potential to divide us or has some other profound effect on our world here, one can be sure it WILL just pop up, and we WILL discuss it sooner or later, simply because such a topic needs to be resolved somehow... It's just the nature of these intellectual things: different minds -- like winds -- shape the surface of our common landscape here, over long or short, calm or stormy, one-time or recurring debates. Sab - 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/