GM & MS

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 14:57 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Joe Smith wrote:
> 
> > The factory radio in my Honda was limited by the manufacturer to only 
> > operate with two small portions of the radio frequency spectrum. Honda 
> > claims it is because of "FCC rules".
> > 
> > The factory radio also won't let me pirate Sirius or XM stations for 
> > some bizarre reason.
> > 
> > I'm sure you're not poking fun at Linux because the maintainers are 
> > unwilling to break the law, are you?
> 
> But feel free to poke fun at them because they won't cooperate with 
> anyone who wants to give their software away in a different manner (ati, 
> nvidia, vmware...), and for making it next to impossible for anyone to 
> supply copies of things that don't break the law as part of the 
> distribution even to people willing to pay for them.
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The sarcasm of previous posters (not Les) notwithstanding...

Companies are free to have their device drivers written for them under
NDA if they choose...

http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/free_drivers.html

I'm not sure how much strength remains in ATI/Nvidia/etc. arguments.

Craig