From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 06:46:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 06:46:33 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]:20870 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 06:46:31 -0500 From: Richard Stallman To: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl CC: jalvo@mbay.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-reply-to: <20030110194145.A16712@bitwizard.nl> (message from Rogier Wolff on Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:41:45 +0100) Subject: Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" Reply-to: rms@gnu.org References: <010101c2b786$794d87a0$0200a8c0@wsl3>

<20030110194145.A16712@bitwizard.nl> Message-Id: Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 06:55:14 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > It would be reasonable, if not for the fact that it gives the wrong > idea of who developed the system and--above all--why. Then -==YOU==- are completely mistaken about why -==I==- contributed to Linux (the kernel & the system). By now, many people have contributed for many reasons, to Linux and to the GNU/Linux system. I do not claim to speak for you; I am talking about why the system exists in the first place. It is not a haphazard collection of components. In the GNU Project, we systematically wrote one component after another. Our goal was a completely free system, and we took step after step to reach it. Thank you for contributing, whatever your motives were. There is a reason why I am not named Mark Mielke-Newman, and our newborn son is not named Ethan Mielke-Herighty-Newman-Marr. It isn't a good analogy. Your son wasn't developed by starting with you and adding some pieces.