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GPL-only symbols and ndiswrapper
GPL-only symbols and ndiswrapper
Posted Oct 26, 2006 12:01 UTC (Thu) by malor (subscriber, #2973)In reply to: GPL-only symbols and ndiswrapper by lutchann
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They have the right to install proprietary drivers. You're supposed to be giving them freedom, not chaining them to free code.
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GPL-only symbols and ndiswrapper
Posted Oct 26, 2006 19:57 UTC (Thu) by AJWM (subscriber, #15888) [Link]
> They have the right to install proprietary drivers.
True. What they don't have the right to is expect somebody else to help them do it, or make it easy for them to do it.