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

Vlad@Vlad.geekizoid.com ("Vlad@Vlad.geekizoid.com")
Thu, 9 Jan 2003 18:12:34 -0600


Double Plus Good Richard, Double Plus Good.

"Withers, however, was already an unperson. He did not exist: he had never
existed." -- George Orwell's 1984

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Richard Stallman
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 5:13 PM
To: billh@gnuppy.monkey.org
Cc: mark@mark.mielke.cc; lm@bitmover.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
paul@clubi.ie; riel@conectiva.com.br; billh@gnuppy.monkey.org
Subject: Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source
drivers?

There is no such thing as an open source community. The people who
founded the open source movement in 1998, and the people who support
it now, are part of the free software community. (We in the free
software movement built the community in the 80s with our determined
effort.)

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