Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:22:28 +0100 (CET) | Subject | Re: Free Linux Driver Development! | From | "Nicolas Mailhot" <> |
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Le Jeu 1 février 2007 10:03, Trent Waddington a écrit : > On 2/1/07, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net> wrote: >> Well, reengineering nvidia/ati DRM is rude to ati/nvidia, so was >> creating >> tigon3, so was rewriting from scratch the GPL drivers some ATA vendors >> published in the past, so was spurning the SATA/SAS stack adaptec >> offered... > > It is rude, but they're writing proprietary modules, and *that* is > rude, so screw 'em.
Not all of them. It seems it's kosher to rewrite a corp GPL driver but not a "community" one.
And as others noted blocking merging is rude too.
-- Nicolas Mailhot
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