Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

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To: Han Boetes <han@...>
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Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 10:40 am

Han Boetes writes:

> > Which is exactly what the GPL people want since that's the whole

I quoted too much. The part I meant was: "This will lead to a
GPL-lock-in". Yeah, big news.

I think people pay too much attention to this. Some clown made a
bombastic statement about how things have been working for ages. And
by that I mean that people write drivers when they get documentation
and that Linux is the Microsoft of free software and they don't give a
fuck about neither freedom nor quality of their software and will
happily sign an NDA just to add another product to their feature
sheet. None of this is new, none of this is surprising. Why give him
more than his 15 minutes of fame by spreading his "I will bend over
for documentation" bullshit even further?

And if you like conspiracy theories, notice that he's working for
Novell and this "NDA is good, give us more NDA" stance is consistent
with the still fresh Novell-Microsoft deal that was (in short):
"patents are good, give us more patents".

//art

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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)
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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)