Han Boetes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Which is exactly what the GPL people want since that's the whole > > point of the license. Otherwise they wouldn't be using the > > GPL. Duh. > > Nah, RMS doesn't want this. A lot of `GPL people' don't want this > at all.
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
