nvidia

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 15:20:22 UTC 2007


Frank Cox wrote:
> 
>> Do you not recognize that there are other existing licenses on 
>> technology that users need?
> 
> There are all kinds of licenses.  If your requirements include "proprietary,
> closed-source and immutable software", then Linux is not for you.

Linus was widely quoted as saying the opposite in the early days of 
Linux.  I doubt if it would have had any acceptance otherwise.

> I'm sorry if this is the first time you have heard this.

There's obviously a misunderstanding somewhere.  One piece of software 
does not get to dictate what others you can run regardless of the 
unrealistic fanaticism involved.  But it does make opensolaris sound 
more appealing.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com




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