Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263119AbTKTX1i (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 18:27:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263518AbTKTX1i (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 18:27:38 -0500 Received: from cantva.canterbury.ac.nz ([132.181.2.27]:18437 "EHLO cantva.canterbury.ac.nz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263119AbTKTX1C (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 18:27:02 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:26:57 +1300 From: Oliver Hunt Subject: Re: Announce: ndiswrapper In-reply-to: <20031120225952.GO22764@holomorphy.com> To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <3FBD4DC1.7040702@student.canterbury.ac.nz> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030727 Thunderbird/0.1 References: <20031120101740.GG22764@holomorphy.com> <20031120225952.GO22764@holomorphy.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1520 Lines: 47 The problem is that they could very easily drop support for linux, then what do we do? We don't have any form of access to the top-of-the-line hardware needed to run most new games, which means there'll be less incentive to try and port them, so there's less reason to create drivers, ad infintum... If anything the only thing we can really do is ask *politely* if they could open more of the drivers... --Oliver William Lee Irwin III wrote: >On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > >>>We may have to get Linus in on that. >>> >>> > >On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 05:47:08PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > >>Linux is a trademark. And if you don't defend it you lose it (like asprin >>and kleenex). So if he doesn't like the "Linux driver" from nvidia he can >>tell them to stop using the term. I'm not sure that's a good thing, >>however, they are more likely to drop support than open source IMHO. >> >> > >Are we really going to cower when faced like an ultimatum like that? > > >-- wli >- >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/ > > - 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/