26 Nov
2004
26 Nov
'04
3:05 p.m.
On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 01:20 +0100, CK wrote:
I still don't see the point, the GPL _protects_
their IP rights
It only protects the source of the driver.
if I
was the evil corporation trying to rip off rme I could aswell rip the
thing apart and reverse engineer the code and the protocol, might still
be cheaper than doing the r&d work.
You're close.
It's most expensive to do your own R&D.
It's a bit cheaper to reverse engineer the products.
It's a lot more cheaper to just grab a GPL'd product and learn from it.
That's why companies are wary of releasing GPL drivers.
--
Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/