On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 20:55 -0700, Thomas Vecchione wrote:
> > Keep in mind that if you patent your hardware innovations, you're free
> > to release an open source driver and no one can rip you off - for
> > example Creative did this with the emu10k1.
>
>
> Considering how broken I consider the US patent system, or really the
> idea of most software patents, this does nothing to improve my thoughts
> on this situation.
>
I am referring to hardware patents.
> I think making it difficult for people to write drivers for their
> hardware to be used on Linux is a mistake. if they consider their ideas
> innovative enough to keep a driver closed source we may as well kiss the
> thought goodbye, RME Fireface for example. We arent spurring innovation
> in that sense, we are driving it to other platforms. Admitedly RME
> didnt write any of their drivers, however IMO they proved they arent
> against working with us(Linux community) but some things get taken a bit
> far IMO.
Well, it's not really a matter of opinion, I'm just stating what the GPL
requires. In order for this to change you'd have to relicense the
kernel.
Lee
Received on Sat Jun 10 16:15:04 2006
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