From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 02:52:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 02:52:32 -0500 Received: from canela.sanfelipe.com.mx ([200.33.143.226]:60944 "EHLO canela.sanfelipe.com.mx") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 02:52:31 -0500 Message-Id: <200301040655.WAA08576@ann.qtpi.lakewood.ca.us> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: rms@gnu.org cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers? In-Reply-To: Message from Richard Stallman of "Fri, 03 Jan 2003 15:30:56 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 22:55:23 -0800 From: Bob Taylor Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In message , Richard Stallman writes: [snip] > The free software movement has always existed within Capitalism, and > fits within the Capitalist system. Our views have little in common > with Communism--we encourage business as long as it respects other > people's freedom to cooperate. Nothing could be more different from > the command economy that failed than the decentralized free software > community. > > Inaccurate though it is, our enemies sometimes call us Communists. > Perhaps because Communism is easier to attack than our real views. The former Soviet Union *was not* a communist system. Look up their *full* name. Your views are Socialist pure and simple. Didn't work for them. Sadly for you neither can you. [snip] -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Bob Taylor Email: brtaylor@sanfelipe.com.mx | |---------------------------------------------------------------| | Like the ad says, at 300 dpi you can tell she's wearing a | | swimsuit. At 600 dpi you can tell it's wet. At 1200 dpi you | | can tell it's painted on. I suppose at 2400 dpi you can tell | | if the paint is giving her a rash. (So says Joshua R. Poulson)| +---------------------------------------------------------------+