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Credit where credit is due

Credit where credit is due

Posted Mar 15, 2009 17:25 UTC (Sun) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Credit where credit is due by jspaleta
Parent article: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

> No it really is Canonical's fault...for making it easy for non-technical users to build and use these proprietary drivers. Drivers that would be a gpl violation for Canonical to build and distribute in binary form.

No.

Cononical exists in reality, they are not the ones that created it.

People were installing nvidia drivers on Nvidia, Fedora, Redhat, Debian, etc etc etc long long before Ubuntu ever came onto the scene.


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