lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2003]   [Jan]   [11]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently"
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 06:54:49PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 03:26:12AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Its not ham you need its utter arrogance and a complete lack of understanding
> > that writing an OS is a seriously hard problem. There is a whole world of
> > mysticism around the concept of a 'beginners mind' although to me
> > "Im sorry nobody told me it was impossible" sums it up far better.
>
> Indeed. Lots of things which are hard look easy to people who haven't
> done them. Operating systems don't have a corner on that market.

For a slightly off-topic example for those interested - Turbine Games
(www.turbinegames.com) has talked about this a bit in their history, if
I'm remembering correctly - literally, they just didn't know that the
game they were building "couldn't be done", so they did it.

--

Ryan Anderson
sometimes Pug Majere
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:32    [W:0.077 / U:1.316 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site