Le Jeu 1 février 2007 10:03, Trent Waddington a écrit :
> On 2/1/07, Nicolas Mailhot <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Well, reengineering nvidia/ati DRM is rude to ati/nvidia, so was
>> creating
>> tigon3, so was rewriting from scratch the GPL drivers some ATA vendors
>> published in the past, so was spurning the SATA/SAS stack adaptec
>> offered...
>
> It is rude, but they're writing proprietary modules, and *that* is
> rude, so screw 'em.
Not all of them.
It seems it's kosher to rewrite a corp GPL driver but not a "community" one.
And as others noted blocking merging is rude too.
--
Nicolas Mailhot
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