Sneakiness and Arrogance

Sneakiness and Arrogance

Posted Sep 2, 2004 16:19 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: Pointless ideology? by dvrabel
Parent article: Pointless ideology?

I agree. Nemosoft objects to the kernel policy. He sneaked in a violation, and then tried to force Linus to continue allowing it. Linus refused to be blackmailed, and was only too happy to get those dirty fingerprints out of his kernel.

Evidently, this guy doesn't care about anybody who has the camera; his own ideological power games are more important to him. The clincher is the NDA: if it weren't about power games, he could have just GPLed the decompression code too.

It's just too bad that this didn't happen three years ago, so that people wouldn't have bought those cameras thinking they were properly supported.

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