From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263155AbTJEQpW (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2003 12:45:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263158AbTJEQpW (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2003 12:45:22 -0400 Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com ([192.108.102.143]:40897 "EHLO smtp-send.myrealbox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263155AbTJEQpV (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2003 12:45:21 -0400 Message-ID: <3F804A61.50405@myrealbox.com> Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 09:44:17 -0700 From: walt Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20030923 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andre Hedrick CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: freed_symbols [Re: People, not GPL [was: Re: Driver Model]] References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andre Hedrick wrote: > You are so young and fresh to the game, it is cute. > > http://www.gcom.com/home/support/whitepapers/linux-gnu-license.html > > Try doing a little more checking of your history Rob. > > The position was set in 1995 and to many who objected let it unchallanged. > Now regardless if you knew of this information or not when you entered > into kernel development, tough! I did not know about it and have to suck > it up that binary modules are permitted, period. So if other people can > make money, then I will too, and encourage others to persue also... Hi Andre, Since I was bold enough to criticize your writing not long ago, I want to say now that I had absolutely no trouble understanding this post. It was a pleasure to read, and I thank you for taking the time and effort to make it that way. The improvement is dramatic, and it really helps. Keep up the good work!