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Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves?

Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves?

Posted Feb 19, 2008 8:40 UTC (Tue) by michich (subscriber, #17902)
In reply to: Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves? by rsidd
Parent article: Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves?

Vendors who want to pre-install Linux are unlikely to be put off by NVidia's proprietary driver.
They should be. It's one thing to download a proprietary driver and use it on one's machine, but distributing it together with Linux is another matter. The 'mere aggregation' clause of the GPL does not apply here, IMO.


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