Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:31:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:31:41 -0500 Received: from modemcable166.48-200-24.mtl.mc.videotron.ca ([24.200.48.166]:31979 "EHLO xanadu.home") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:31:39 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:41:04 -0500 (EST) From: Nicolas Pitre X-X-Sender: nico@xanadu.home To: Christoph Hellwig cc: andrea.glorioso@binary-only.com, lkml Subject: Re: Monta Vista software license terms In-Reply-To: <20030205183417.A24515@infradead.org> 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: 1214 Lines: 28 On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:31:43PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > 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. > > Anyone with a bit technical knowledge wouldn't use the shit provide by mvista > anyway. The point is to have the trees for comparism, not for actually using > them. And you really think that those without that technical knowledge who are happy to pay for that "shit" today will continue to do so if they just could run away with it for free? Yet I'm amazed about your own insistence to compare your work with "shit". I always thought you were a highly qualified kernel hacker. Nicolas - 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/