From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: "v j" <vj.linux@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:55:20 +1100
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Cc: "Trent Waddington" <trent.waddington@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers
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On Wednesday February 14, vj.linux@gmail.com wrote:
> You don't get it do you. Our source code is meaningless to the Open
> Source community at large. It is only useful to our tiny set of
> competitors that have nothing to do with Linux. The Embedded space is
> very specific. We are only _using_ Linux. Just as we could have used
> VxWorks or OSE. Using our source code would not benefit anybody but
> our competitors. 

It would also benefit your *customers*.  And you might find that
providing such benefits increases the number of your customers.

NeilBrown
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