Not really dlink give out drv under gpl for linux kiss dvd manyfactory using sigmadesign decoder chip in some dvd player and they giving out there driver as gpl. And some other manyfactor both for windows and linux.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Andrews" jon@jonshouse.co.uk To: "ReactOS Development List" ros-dev@reactos.org Sent: den 5 December 2005 21:55 Subject: Re: [ros-dev] My attitude
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 20:18 +0000, TwoTailedFox wrote:
I can see IBM supporting us, since their last Good OS, OS/2, is now efectively dead. I don't see some companies like Sun, or Novell, supporting us, since they already have a vested interest in an Operating System
What I'd really like to see are Hardware Manufacturers getting behind us. Realtek, nVIDIA, ATi, Intel, AMD, VIA, etc, could all be approached, and ask for collaboration on writing GPL Drivers (Although nVIDIA is notoriously skeptical about open-source)
Im sorry, snot came out of my nose laughing when I read this...... If you think ANY Manufacturer is going to back an open source windows clone when they wont even touch a FreeBSD, let alone a Liux then you are not living in the real world.
If you want pure GPL then it is best NOT to contact these people and ask, if by some miracle they sent you any data you would probably find that you are in breech of NDA if you use it.
Out of your list only VIA will give out data on request, and thats only data for devices that don't do multimedia.
Jon
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