Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers?

Graham Murray (graham@barnowl.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 05 Jan 2003 14:04:34 +0000


David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> writes:

> Fine, keep the drivers closed source. Just tell us what the
> interfaces are and we'll make our own drivers. Maybe they're afraid
> ours will be better. ;)

Which could be of (commercial) benefit to them, as if the Open Source
drivers were better than their own they could save money by not
developing and supporting drivers and distributing the open source
drivers.

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