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I agree with Linus, for the most part. Microsoft hatred has turned into a religion, and like any religion, it has its radicals. However, it should be pointed o
by teilo 17y ago
I agree with Linus, for the most part. Microsoft hatred has turned into a religion, and like any religion, it has its radicals.
However, it should be pointed out that this whole incident has more to do with Microsoft being forced to comply with the GPL to avoid being sued for GPL violation. Yeah, they GPL'd code, and turned it into a PR stunt - but they're not happy about it.
In other words - this incident proves that we need to continue to watch Microsoft like a hawk. Trust them like you would trust a trained tiger.
- dtf 17y agoAll I know about this incident is that Microsoft dropped some driver code into the kernel and chose to license it as GPL (they could easily have chosen BSD instead). Why have they been "forced to comply with the GPL to avoid being sued for GPL violation"? Did I miss something? * edit: I did miss the earlier thing about them mixing GPL with a binary blob in an earlier driver. Though who would be suing them in this case? And is this different from NVIDIA's driver?
- nailer 17y agoNVIDIAs Linux driver is the apparently 90% the same code as their Windows driver, making it not a derived work of the kernel as it doesn't exclusively require Linux.