Re: [SLE] Rhetorical question

On 20/09/06 17:58, Jeff Rollin wrote:
<snip>
I can see no reason for complaining that people who do not comply with
the
Linux licensing requirements are not given quarter; if a company
disclosed
confidential Windows specs or code, in breach of a Windows licence, in
order
to write a driver under the GPL (or any other), the response from Redmond
would be a lot heavier and nastier than a snide remark or 20 on a mailing
list.
Your point being what? That the disclosure of confidential and/or
copyright and /or patented hardware specifications or driver code is
somehow in the same league as the lack of open-source code for the same
device?

Get real.

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