Microsofts new way of bashing Linux

[Shawn McMahon]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 09:05:03PM -0400, Lee Revell said:
> 
> Besides, the legal consensus is that closed source Linux drivers are
> illegal as they constitute a derived work of the Linux kernel.  This has
> not been tested in court yet but it's only a matter of time.

That's nothing close a consensus.  There's rather a huge body of thought
that says exactly the opposite, starting with Linus Torvalds and
extending to an awful lot of lawyers for large companies that stand to
lose a lot of money if they're wrong, and so wouldn't rush into it
lightly.


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