Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261750AbVDCOIL (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2005 10:08:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261764AbVDCOIL (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2005 10:08:11 -0400 Received: from mail.pixelwings.com ([194.152.163.212]:13248 "EHLO pixelwings.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261750AbVDCOIF (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2005 10:08:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20050330233029.GA28879@sa.pracom.com.au> References: <20050330233029.GA28879@sa.pracom.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Apple-Mail-1--1061393109" Message-Id: <4948d7062bd65ca91f84daa114b9adcb@tequila.co.jp> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Clemens Schwaighofer Subject: Re: Can't use SYSFS for "Proprietry" driver modules !!!. Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 23:07:56 +0900 To: John Pearson X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.0.2 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2135 Lines: 59 --Apple-Mail-1--1061393109 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On 31/3/2005, at 08:30, John Pearson wrote: > > E.g.: suppose there are 2 snack bars within 100 yards of a school; one > is out of sight, across an intersection and down a side street, and one > is clearly visible across an empty lot. For years the lot has been > unfenced and, human nature being what it is, kids just walk across the > open lot. The owner of the lot then decides to put up a high fence > around it with a combination lock on the gate (now he's raising > chinchillas, > or peaches; he won't say) so all the kids start going to the other > snackbar, > except for a few that he trusts with the combination. It seems to me > you're suggesting that the snackbar owner who's lost out would have > an action for restraint of trade; I can't see it myself. Well in Austria there is a law: if you walk through an area that is not public and do this for a very long time years and suddenly the owner stops you from doing this, you could sue him for stopping you doing a usual thing. But real life issues and software laws are more than two kind of shoes. They are two kind of universes. Right and Code changes always happens, some approve i some not. And there will be always people not like it. Fact is the kernel is a GPL thing so logically the coders want to keep it GPL, lg, clemens --Apple-Mail-1--1061393109 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFCT/i/jBz/yQjBxz8RAjVoAKDqfu9vPUnLHJsPmVeqWiW6i4C7dgCgr2Ly 33Wzb2kxBsRn7ESWZ9p6xWs= =wz4c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-1--1061393109-- - 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/