Argh, Alan are we joining the FUD team now? I don't know if you are aware of this, but an offhand remark made by a Thomson representative 6-7 years ago about mp3 patents and Vorbis has been a major obstacle in getting Vorbis adopted/supported by many device manufacturers etc. I been spending a lot of energy over the last year trying to overcome that FUD spread so long ago as part of dealing with many of these companies. So it saddens me deeply when respected free software personalities start engaging in this sort of legal FUD spreading. If you want to bring a court case do so, if not shut the fuck up. This also reminds me of that old friggin 'the GPL isn't valid until uphelp in court' argument that every ignorant analyst loved to spit out for many years. If people don't like binary drivers fine, but please stop fudding unless you actually have something concrete. I am sure your kernel contributions would give you enough legal standing to bring up a case against NVidia Alan, so if you want to make an issue out of this have the guts to take action instead of this childish FUD spreading. Christian On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 09:34 -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 03:24:06PM +0200, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote: > > The Nvidia drivers (or ATI ones) are not 'illegal'. The slides you point > > Thats for a court to decide. The question is not that simple. > > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
