On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:09:03 -0500, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
This is the road where the loosening of standards happens. Then this
leads to blobs and NVIDIA like onerous licenses as Henning pointed
out
some months ago. (for those who don't know, basically NVIDIA says if
you use our card & binary driver in FreeBSD and do any commercial
activity, NVIDIA wants their cut if you have big pockets, they won't
bother if you are small potatoes).
Wouldn't a loosening of standards require that the standards being
discussed
have gotten looser? Rather than, you know, have stayed relatively
static
for a very long time?
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Matthew Weigel
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