Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 12th May 2007 21:40 UTC, submitted by dylansmrjones
"The Free Software movement is dead. Linux doesn't exist in 2007. Even Linus has got a job today." Controversial statements from the head of Microsoft's Linux Labs, Bill Hilf. Speaking on the last leg of a tour of Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, Bill Hilf, more formally known as Microsoft's platform strategy director, was in the region to 'be descriptive and intelligent in giving people an understanding of open source and debunk a lot of the mythology around open source'.
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RE[4]: The article is correct
by dylansmrjones on Sun 13th May 2007 04:58
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Member since:2005-10-02
nVidia is not circumventing the GPL since the driver isn't under the GPL 
The driver core is identical to the windows driver and it doesn't link to the linux kernel. Only the adapter does. All perfectly legal and no circumventing.
I don't know about ati's proprietary drivers, so I'll give you benefit of doubt on that one.
Besides that. Using proprietary software when no usable FLOSS solutions are available does not constitute circumventing the ideals.
The community is thriving, the GPL is growing stronger every day, and proprietary software is losing some of its power every single day. Rejoice dudes! Rejoice!
RE[5]: The article is correct
by JMcCarthy on Sun 13th May 2007 20:15
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I'm not saying there is anything wrong with making a profit off of free-software, there is nothing wrong with it as long as profit doesn't come at a sacrifice.
>Nobody is trying to circumvent any ideals or license here.
http://www.nvidia.com/
http://ati.amd.com/
and tons of other hardware manufactures. Then there are things like the prominence of Flash, etc. I'd be surprised if more than 50% of GNU/Linux users were actually for free as in freedom software rather than Windows refugees.