From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756820AbYBGNro (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:47:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751967AbYBGNrd (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:47:33 -0500 Received: from hawking.rebel.net.au ([203.20.69.83]:34854 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751320AbYBGNrc (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:47:32 -0500 Message-ID: <47AB0BF1.4090509@davidnewall.com> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:17:29 +1030 From: David Newall User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Marcel Holtmann , Christer Weinigel , Diego Zuccato , Greg KH , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only References: <20080125180232.GA4613@kroah.com> <20080202123710.42df1aa0@weinigel.se> <20080202191930.GA19826@kroah.com> <47A5D895.20300@davidnewall.com> <47A6E742.80408@otello.alma.unibo.it> <47A764ED.8030605@weinigel.se> <1202161091.15090.84.camel@violet> <20080206213449.6614efea@weinigel.se> <1202331345.15090.235.camel@violet.holtmann.net> <20080206205233.24d0760e@core> In-Reply-To: <20080206205233.24d0760e@core> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: >> I heard this all before and I don't buy it anymore. At some point the >> companies in Asia will understand that the whole picture looks different >> and that not always cheap, cheap, cheap is best for their margins. Again, I missed who wrote the above. I'm reminded of Apple computer, who explaining some engineering decisions in the Apple ][ pointed out that an additional 10c in components adds $10 to the retail price (or something rather like that.) Cheap, cheap, cheap helps market share far more than quality.