On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 22:09 +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> Lee Revell hat gesagt: // Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > Nvidia has a lot more valuable IP at stake than VIA when they
> > release an open source driver for their 3D gear.  If you don't
> > understand why, I can't help you.
> 
> I do understand this very well. Because this is the central conflict:
> I will not deal with companies who hide their so called Intellectual
> Property in an area where many free software developers (Jarolav,
> Takashi, Paul, Miller, Linus, Guido, ...) release their so called
> Intellectual Property into a freedom so that it is not *their*
> property anymore but free to use for a whole community. 

I think you are confusing the distinction between software and hardware.
I agree that software should be free.  The issue here is what the
software reveals about the hardware.

This is the reason Linus allows binary Linux drivers, but not, say, a
binary I/O scheduler.

Lee

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