[olug] [OT] Video Card Recommendation

[T. J. Brumfield]

> There is no driver API, there are internal kernel symbols. Even if there were
> an API, the GPL explicitly forbids linking either to or from incompatible
> code.

It looks like I found something that doesn't exist.

http://www.gnugeneration.com/books/linux/2.6.20/kernel-api/

Funny, because Greg Kroah-Hartman, who is arguably the biggest driver
maintainer working on Linux says there is. When we writes patches that
change the API, he names the patches Driver API. There are books
documenting the API. You can write a kernel driver simply by reading
the books that document the API.

> The FSF does not hold any copyrights on Linux, and thus has no legal basis to
> file a lawsuit. In reality, were one of the copyright holders to do so, the
> community would flame them for defending their copyright, and would make
> nVidia into a martyr. That is inevitably why it hasn't happened and probably
> never will.

The FSF reports GPL violations on tons of code it does hold copyright
to. The FSF rants and raves about anything and everything. The FSF has
written declarations that Firefox is evil and not FOSS because it
allows you to load proprietary extensions! How dare an application
allow choice for their users! True freedom is the absense of choice,
or so the FSF would have you believe.

The FSF hasn't reported Nvidia for GPL violations because there is no
proof they have violated the GPL.

If you have proof, then please bring it forward.

-- T. J. Brumfield