On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 01:20 +0100, CK wrote: > I still don't see the point, the GPL _protects_ their IP rights
It only protects the source of the driver. > if I > was the evil corporation trying to rip off rme I could aswell rip the > thing apart and reverse engineer the code and the protocol, might still > be cheaper than doing the r&d work. You're close. It's most expensive to do your own R&D. It's a bit cheaper to reverse engineer the products. It's a lot more cheaper to just grab a GPL'd product and learn from it. That's why companies are wary of releasing GPL drivers. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/