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Negotiating a better contract?Negotiating a better contract?Posted Apr 4, 2008 0:14 UTC (Fri) by kevinbsmith (subscriber, #4778)In reply to: Other points. by man_ls Parent article: A creative example of the value of free drivers
Isn't the same argument used to explain why NVidia "can't" release source code to their drivers, even if they want(ed) to?
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Negotiating a worse contract Posted Apr 4, 2008 6:27 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Yes, but you realize the difference. A company that licenses some code only for its release in binary form is not hurting its users. But a company that licenses code only for a specific version of the operating system is setting an expiry date on its drivers, and so effectively on the hardware as well. Or at least on a feature of the hardware.
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