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Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves?Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves?Posted Feb 18, 2008 20:46 UTC (Mon) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)Parent article: Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves?
I just don't see any way of telling someone not to scratch an itch.. or even worse enforce people not to do so. I mean how? Revoke CVS, email privs, make a McCarthy blacklist from anyone who works on Nouveau? [Yes hyperbole ontop of hyperbole..] Yes it sucks that NVIDIA has basically screwed Linux over and over again.. and gets some people to fix their stuff. But in some ways you can say the same about most FLOSS. If RMS hadn't been pissed about proprietary Emacs and Linus hadn't been peeved about the state of proprietary Unix.. Would we have openssh if the OpenBSD team had not been peeved about the propietary nature of later SSH's? Would we have the amount of Free Software that we have today? So I think it is a two edged sword that we need to think of how to better reward companies that play with us versus looking at how to punish those who 'reward' those who don't.
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Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves? Posted Feb 18, 2008 21:12 UTC (Mon) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link] """ If RMS hadn't been pissed about proprietary Emacs """ When was Emacs proprietary?
Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves? Posted Feb 18, 2008 22:15 UTC (Mon) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link] One example of a proprietary Emacs was Gosling Emacs, which started out open source (of a sort) then went proprietary as Unipress Emacs. It was nowhere near as nice as GNU Emacs once that matured, but it was around before that - early 80s at least. I once wrote a filtering newsgroup reader based on Gosling Emacs - this tool worked quite well but dealing with the fairly horrible and slow Mocklisp included in that Emacs was painful...
Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves? Posted Feb 18, 2008 23:37 UTC (Mon) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link] My recollection of Gosling Emacs was that the embedded language was more C like than Lisp like... I might even still have a manual in my basement somewhere.
Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves? Posted Feb 18, 2008 22:19 UTC (Mon) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]
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