Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 18:38:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 18:37:27 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]:46981 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 18:36:17 -0500 From: Richard Stallman To: lm@bitmover.com CC: lm@bitmover.com, mark@mark.mielke.cc, billh@gnuppy.monkey.org, paul@clubi.ie, riel@conectiva.com.br, Hell.Surfers@cwctv.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-reply-to: <20030103203909.GC24896@work.bitmover.com> (message from Larry McVoy on Fri, 3 Jan 2003 12:39:09 -0800) Subject: Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers? Reply-to: rms@gnu.org References: <20030102013736.GA2708@gnuppy.monkey.org> <20030102055859.GA3991@gnuppy.monkey.org> <20030102061430.GA23276@mark.mielke.cc> <20030103040612.GA10651@work.bitmover.com> <20030103203909.GC24896@work.bitmover.com> Message-Id: Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 18:44:51 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 901 Lines: 20 > The clear part of your statement is your attitude toward our > community. You express derision for the very idea of asking a company > to contribute to free software. We are fortunate that Netscape, Sun, > and IBM, and the people who won their partial cooperation, did not > take your advice. News flash: it's a well documented fact that there was nobody at Sun who before or since has spent as much time as I have trying to free up Sun's code. Please tell your earlier self that I appreciate his work, and that I am glad that that the opposition expressed in your previous message did not deter him from doing it. - 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/