Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Richard Stallman <> | Subject | Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" | Date | Sun, 12 Jan 2003 06:55:14 -0500 |
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> It would be reasonable, if not for the fact that it gives the wrong > idea of who developed the system and--above all--why.
Then -==YOU==- are completely mistaken about why -==I==- contributed to Linux (the kernel & the system).
By now, many people have contributed for many reasons, to Linux and to the GNU/Linux system. I do not claim to speak for you; I am talking about why the system exists in the first place. It is not a haphazard collection of components. In the GNU Project, we systematically wrote one component after another. Our goal was a completely free system, and we took step after step to reach it.
Thank you for contributing, whatever your motives were.
There is a reason why I am not named Mark Mielke-Newman, and our newborn son is not named Ethan Mielke-Herighty-Newman-Marr.
It isn't a good analogy. Your son wasn't developed by starting with you and adding some pieces. - 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/
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