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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:22:28 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!
From: "Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net>
To: "Trent Waddington" <trent.waddington@gmail.com>
Cc: "Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com>, "Theodore Tso" <tytso@mit.edu>,
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Le Jeu 1 février 2007 10:03, Trent Waddington a écrit :
> On 2/1/07, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net> wrote:
>> Well, reengineering nvidia/ati DRM is rude to ati/nvidia, so was
>> creating
>> tigon3, so was rewriting from scratch the GPL drivers some ATA vendors
>> published in the past, so was spurning the SATA/SAS stack adaptec
>> offered...
>
> It is rude, but they're writing proprietary modules, and *that* is
> rude, so screw 'em.

Not all of them.
It seems it's kosher to rewrite a corp GPL driver but not a "community" one.

And as others noted blocking merging is rude too.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

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