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Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:31:43 -0500 (EST)
From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
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On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 12:57:49PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > I find it quite saddening that a lot of people only care about making up shit 
> > while the company in question is devoting a lot of money in salary to hire 
> > kernel developers full time whose work has always been merged to community 
> > trees so far.
> 
> Blah.  Why can't mvista put up the source to their products on some ftp
> server like suse/redhat/caldera/mandrake/etc??  That's the whole point of
> this discussion.  

Maybe because MV is trying to avoid the financial difficulties many of the
companies quoted above have?

> mvista doesn't do anything illegal, but they certainly don't play nice.

MontaVista contribute 98% of their modifications to GPL projects back into
their respective public repositories.  That's all a hacker like you should
care about.  For the rest of the people in the embedded world that don't
want to gather a distribution by themselves tailored to their commercial
product then that work comes with a price.


Nicolas

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