Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

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To: Stephan A. Rickauer <stephan.rickauer@...>
Cc: <misc@...>
Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 5:42 am

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:06:36AM +0100, Stephan A. Rickauer wrote:

You seem to have missed:
Q: What about the BSDs?

A: What about them? They are free to do whatever they wish, I
have no input into their development at all, sorry.

> You seem to be happy with signing NDAs. If the result is a

Well, as my goal is to have a GPL driver for everything, I don't see how
this can hurt :)

Now others can have different goals, and that's great and fine. I'm not
saying you can't work on something if you wish to do so.

But for you to try to tell me that I shouldn't work to achive my goal,
as it somehow conflicts with your goals, is pretty rude, don't you
think?

There is no reason you can not extend the same kind of offer to
companies to help your project achieve success.

> This is not about freedom but about prostitution.

I'm sorry you feel this way.

*plonk*

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Free Linux Driver Development!, Stephan A. Rickauer, (Wed Feb 14, 3:39 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Greg KH, (Wed Feb 14, 3:50 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development! , Theo de Raadt, (Wed Feb 14, 5:51 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Stephan A. Rickauer, (Wed Feb 14, 5:06 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Artur Grabowski, (Wed Feb 14, 6:07 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Han Boetes, (Wed Feb 14, 7:45 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Artur Grabowski, (Wed Feb 14, 10:40 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Han Boetes, (Wed Feb 14, 11:19 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Jeff Rollin, (Wed Feb 14, 8:18 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Darren Spruell, (Wed Feb 14, 11:18 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Marc Ravensbergen, (Wed Feb 14, 2:48 pm)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Jack J. Woehr, (Wed Feb 14, 3:59 pm)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Darren Spruell, (Wed Feb 14, 4:29 pm)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Jack J. Woehr, (Wed Feb 14, 4:34 pm)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Martin Schröder, (Wed Feb 14, 8:51 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Paul de Weerd, (Wed Feb 14, 8:45 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, mickey, (Wed Feb 14, 8:58 am)
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Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Mic J, (Wed Feb 14, 11:05 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Han Boetes, (Wed Feb 14, 10:06 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Greg KH, (Wed Feb 14, 5:42 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Matthew R. Dempsky, (Wed Feb 14, 11:37 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Han Boetes, (Wed Feb 14, 11:35 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Marco Peereboom, (Wed Feb 14, 11:02 am)