[Gllug] Hypothetical GPL question

[David Damerell]

On Tuesday, 9 Oct 2001, tet at accucard.com wrote:
>>That's a possible strategy, but it didn't stop nvidia's obfuscated
>>'open' drivers from being rejected.
>Yes, but do you think they care?

If not, why not a binary-only driver?

>They're not interested in doing the
>right thing (otherwise, they wouldn't have obfuscated it in the first
>place).

What they wanted to do was pull a fast one by labelling the driver as
open to have it accepted but not actually make it useful to
modify. They did not succeed.

>It's more important for them to be able to claim to the
>ignorant public that they support open source than it is to have the
>backing of the open source community.

Um, who besides the open source community cares?

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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