Well Dave, I didn't mean they would lose their propriatary status, but is they don't make a Linux driver available, someone will of nessessity have to reverse engineer their non-linux driver before the hardware will work with Linux. Now a days many hardware manufactures include Linux drivers as a matter of course, others could care less, so there is still often a period where you can not use the newest hardware with Linux. --graywolf
----- Original Message ----- From: David A. Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 1:30 AM Subject: Re: OT: Ill-timed failures > Tom Rittenhouse writes: > > > The problem with GPLed software is if hardware manufactures consider their > > drivers to be proprietary it takes awhile for someone to reverse engineer > > the driver so it often does not support the very latest hardware. > > There is nothing wrong with releasing proprietary software for an open-source > platform. However, if you modify GPL code you must release your > modifications under the same license. > > Cheers, > > - Dave > > David A. Mann, B.E. (Elec) > http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/ > > "Why is it that if an adult behaves like a child they lock him up, > while children are allowed to run free on the streets?" -- Garfield > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
