Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers
From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: v j <vj.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:54:17 +0100
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On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 22:27 -0800, v j wrote:
> You are right. I have not contributed anything to Linux. Except one
> small patch to the MTD code. However, I don't think that is the point
> here. I am perfectly willing to live with the way Linux is today. I am
> telling you as a user that if Linux continues on the current path it
> will become less and less attractive to Embedded Users.

Guess what ? No one cares. If being serious about the GPL means that
free-riders like you, who take and never give back, prefer to go
elsewhere, that's not a problem. No one looses anything.

BTW, the thousands of different predictions "if linux doesn't do X,
it'll never be successful" get old pretty quicly.

	Xav


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