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A creative example of the value of free drivers

A creative example of the value of free drivers

Posted Apr 4, 2008 19:57 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: A creative example of the value of free drivers by nlucas
Parent article: A creative example of the value of free drivers

I don't 'cherish' copyright law. It has to be tolerated, as the law of the 
land, but nobody says we have to *like* it. (Indeed the GPL license in 
particular is an attempt to end-run around it by producing a pool of works 
within which one can act as if copyright law did not exist beyond 'show me 
the source'.)


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A creative example of the value of free drivers

Posted Apr 4, 2008 22:21 UTC (Fri) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793) [Link]

Fair enough. My selection of the "cherish" word was a bad one.

My point is only that we actually depend on the law, or we couldn't force users to "show us
the code".

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