Bug, feature; who can say? [LWN.net]

Bug, feature; who can say?

Posted Aug 1, 2005 17:39 UTC (Mon) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989)
In reply to: Microsoft's DRM vision by emkey
Parent article: Microsoft's DRM vision

I foresee a thriving market for motherboard manufacturers using GPL code from Linux BIOS onwards.
If you like chess, go GPL.
If you like poker, go somewhere else, and whine not when the ante is in orbit.

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dont dream on it!

Posted Aug 2, 2005 18:38 UTC (Tue) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

" I foresee a thriving market for motherboard manufacturers using GPL code from Linux BIOS onwards... "

Only if Linux attracts a substancial proportion of common user base( many now on Windows), and even then, they will hesitate much more to trow something in GPL, than to a closed NDA inspection of their "driver source code" by Microsoft.

Something could *should* be done in the driver model in the realm of out of tree non-derivative coding in Linux kernel, to overcome this *MS Major Lock*, or your statement above could only encounter as an answer: keep on dreaming!