On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 22:09 +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Lee Revell hat gesagt: // Lee Revell wrote: > > > Nvidia has a lot more valuable IP at stake than VIA when they > > release an open source driver for their 3D gear. If you don't > > understand why, I can't help you. > > I do understand this very well. Because this is the central conflict: > I will not deal with companies who hide their so called Intellectual > Property in an area where many free software developers (Jarolav, > Takashi, Paul, Miller, Linus, Guido, ...) release their so called > Intellectual Property into a freedom so that it is not *their* > property anymore but free to use for a whole community.
I think you are confusing the distinction between software and hardware. I agree that software should be free. The issue here is what the software reveals about the hardware. This is the reason Linus allows binary Linux drivers, but not, say, a binary I/O scheduler. Lee
