Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in non-freedrivers?

Oliver Xymoron (oxymoron@waste.org)
Mon, 6 Jan 2003 22:37:07 -0600


On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 11:52:05PM +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> >But if that doesn't work for you, I would not consider it a great loss
> >for the world if your products were not produced. They contribute
> >something to the world if they are free software, but otherwise not.
>
> Perhaps not. But my 40 software developing staff are still going to be
> mightily pissed when I don't make payroll.

Given that 90% of software development is reinventing the wheel (badly),
perhaps 36 of them could move on to a career doing something useful.

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