Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

From: Xavier Bestel
Date: Thu Feb 15 2007 - 04:54:45 EST


On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 22:27 -0800, v j wrote:
> You are right. I have not contributed anything to Linux. Except one
> small patch to the MTD code. However, I don't think that is the point
> here. I am perfectly willing to live with the way Linux is today. I am
> telling you as a user that if Linux continues on the current path it
> will become less and less attractive to Embedded Users.

Guess what ? No one cares. If being serious about the GPL means that
free-riders like you, who take and never give back, prefer to go
elsewhere, that's not a problem. No one looses anything.

BTW, the thousands of different predictions "if linux doesn't do X,
it'll never be successful" get old pretty quicly.

Xav


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