On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 14:57 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Joe Smith wrote: > > > The factory radio in my Honda was limited by the manufacturer to only > > operate with two small portions of the radio frequency spectrum. Honda > > claims it is because of "FCC rules". > > > > The factory radio also won't let me pirate Sirius or XM stations for > > some bizarre reason. > > > > I'm sure you're not poking fun at Linux because the maintainers are > > unwilling to break the law, are you? > > But feel free to poke fun at them because they won't cooperate with > anyone who wants to give their software away in a different manner (ati, > nvidia, vmware...), and for making it next to impossible for anyone to > supply copies of things that don't break the law as part of the > distribution even to people willing to pay for them. ---- The sarcasm of previous posters (not Les) notwithstanding... Companies are free to have their device drivers written for them under NDA if they choose... http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/free_drivers.html I'm not sure how much strength remains in ATI/Nvidia/etc. arguments. Craig
