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X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

Posted Aug 17, 2006 21:29 UTC (Thu) by ncm (guest, #165)
In reply to: X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules by lysse
Parent article: X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

If they could get the $50 without commercial repercussions, they would be obliged to charge it. Otherwise they would be subject to shareholder lawsuits for failing to extract potential revenue. (Apple was forced to charge for OS upgrades, for that reason.) But I'm not sure what your point is.

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X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

Posted Aug 17, 2006 22:38 UTC (Thu) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link]

If Nvidia would sell me a license to full specifications for their
hardware for 50 dollars, I would be willing to buy that! If Nvidia was
willing to sell me the source to a Free Software driver codebase for
their hardware for 50 dollars, I would buy that!


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