Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 16:16:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 16:16:13 -0500 Received: from mail.hometree.net ([212.34.181.120]:17045 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 16:16:12 -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 non-free drivers? Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 21:24:47 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: References: <20030102013736.GA2708@gnuppy.monkey.org> <20030103212631.GD24896@work.bitmover.com> <200301031627.52561.dpaun@rogers.com> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 1041801887 24255 212.34.181.4 (5 Jan 2003 21:24:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 21:24:47 +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: 1209 Lines: 25 "Dimitrie O. Paun" writes: > software. For how much money MS has, what have they innovated? Without Microsoft, there wouldn't be 2,4 GHz 32/64 bit microcomputers with 512 megabytes of main memory, 120 gigabytes of hard disk space and 1600x1200 pixels 32 bit resolution and 3d real time capability for < $1000 on sale at your local discount store. Simply because there wouldn't be a market for this. Face it. Microsoft Software is, what made the breakthrough to really put a powerful machine in every home and allow the 2-5% of the owner base which are Linux users to get really cheap commodity hardware. Not IBM did this. Not Commodore. Not Apple. Not Linux. 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/