Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 Jan 2003 13:28:41 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Honest does not pay here ... |
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On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> Well, all this goes to show you is that if you try to do the right thing > and you have something of value, you are attacked.
Attacked by (mostly) a bunch of wankers who don't seem to do much useful themselves. People who do useful work once in a while know how much effort you are putting into Linux drivers and appreciate the work you're doing.
> Well you all have gotten all kinds of goodie for free,
And I thank you for that.
> Well I was thinking of giving part of it to the community after I > recovered my costs of development, now I think not.
That's a real shame. I like your business model of recovering the development costs before releasing the software since it's a way to fund your work on the kernel pretty much full-time, which seems to have resulted in really good free drivers.
To be honest I don't understand why people are complaining about the fact that your model keeps some drivers closed for 18 months, while a completely free model wouldn't even start development of the drivers for 18 months, until after the hardware became generally available.
regards,
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