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Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in non-free drivers?

DISCUSSION walt 2 participants 2 messages Jan 5, 2003 – Jan 7, 2003 1 message not in the archive

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#1 lore raw
Quoted 8 lines · Henning P. Schmiedehausen
Quoted 1 line · Dimitrie O. Paun

software. For how much money MS has, what have they innovated?

Face it. Microsoft Software is what made the breakthrough to really put a powerful machine in every home and allow the 2-5% of the owner base which are Linux users to get really cheap commodity hardware.

I think you are correct in this. The dinosaurs had their day -- we all got our DNA from them -- and now they are gone.

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Quoted 2 lines · walt

... The dinosaurs had their day --
we all got our DNA from them -- and now they are gone.

(completely OT)

This is wrong. We didn't got our DNA from the dinosaurs. The split in the evolution between the ancestors of the dinosaurs and our ancestors happened many million years before the great time of the dinosaurs.

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