Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Jan 2003 01:32:36 -0500 | From | Ryan Anderson <> | Subject | Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" |
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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.
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