Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

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On Thursday 15 February 2007, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:46:13PM -0800, v j wrote:
>
>  > Using our source code would not benefit anybody but
>  > our competitors.
>
> This excuse has been given time and time again, and repeatedly been
> proven false.  And as soon as one of your competitors makes their
> drivers open, guess which one gets 1000+ free developers working
> on their code ?

I think a nice example of that might be the Linksys WRT54G routers. 

Jan

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