From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
To: Ian Stirling <ian.stirling@mauve.plus.com>
Cc: James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Anonymous User <anonymouslinuxuser@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GPL Violation?
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:35:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP02D09F87AA103F112B20A2AE4D0@CEZ.ICE> (raw)
Message-ID: <20060817193540.dc819396.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44E4FB43.4090304@mauve.plus.com>
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:26:59 +0100
Ian Stirling <ian.stirling@mauve.plus.com> wrote:
> Well...
> The problem is that in many cases AIUI, a large entry barrier to
> someone taking CPU A, chip B, sticking it in a box, and selling
> it, is that there is no linux driver for chip B.
> If you (as someone who does not make chip B) release the GPL'd
> driver, then you're making it a fair bit easier for competitors,
> who can now simply copy your often not very novel in any way
> other than you thought of it first - design, and use that driver.
>
That seems like a very reasonable price to pay for the ability to
use all the work of the many developers who created Linux in the
first place. There are other operating systems available to use
if you're not happy with such a deal.
Sean
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-17 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-17 5:48 Anonymous User
2006-08-17 6:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-17 9:38 ` Ben B
2006-08-17 12:02 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-08-17 16:11 ` Stefan Richter
2006-08-17 19:21 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-08-17 23:26 ` Ian Stirling
[not found] ` <20060817193540.dc819396.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-08-17 23:35 ` Sean [this message]
2006-08-18 0:32 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-18 7:23 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-08-18 12:23 ` Ian Stirling
2006-08-18 9:04 ` Helge Hafting
2006-08-17 6:42 ` Patrick McFarland
2006-08-17 6:54 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-17 7:32 ` Patrick McFarland
2006-08-17 8:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-17 9:03 ` Patrick McFarland
2006-08-18 17:56 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-17 12:39 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2006-08-17 13:41 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-17 13:31 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2006-08-17 15:52 ` Theodore Tso
2006-08-18 2:03 ` Chase Venters
2006-08-17 8:32 ` Stefan Richter
2006-08-17 9:36 ` Patrick McFarland
2006-08-17 11:25 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-17 11:48 ` Neil Brown
2006-08-17 9:37 ` David Woodhouse
2006-08-17 23:45 ` Ian Stirling
2006-08-18 8:28 ` David Woodhouse
2006-08-18 12:52 ` Ian Stirling
2006-08-18 8:53 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-08-18 9:04 ` David Woodhouse
2006-08-18 9:15 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-08-20 22:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2006-08-20 22:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-18 9:51 ` David Schwartz
2006-08-18 16:52 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-18 22:42 ` David Schwartz
2006-08-19 10:48 ` David Greaves
2006-08-19 16:29 ` Patrick McFarland
2006-08-19 17:28 ` David Greaves
2006-08-19 11:30 ` Helge Hafting
2006-08-19 15:44 ` Michael Buesch
2006-08-19 23:01 ` David Schwartz
2006-08-20 3:20 ` Chase Venters
2006-08-21 7:58 ` Helge Hafting
2006-08-21 11:27 ` Stefan Richter
2006-08-21 13:06 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-21 14:59 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-08-17 9:30 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-17 9:29 ` Patrick McFarland
2006-08-17 14:52 ` Helge Hafting
2006-08-17 14:58 ` Anonymous User
2006-08-17 15:52 ` Stefan Richter
2006-08-17 16:19 ` Michiel de Boer
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