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Re: Linux on the desktop - it's come a long way, but is it there yet?



 On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:16:21 -0400 
Richard M Stallman <[hidden email]> wrote: 

>     I apreciate that there might be varying opinions on this matter, but what I 
>     said about the patent fears of NVIDA and ATI et al came directly from the 
>     horses mouth, the legal departments and corperate CEO's of those company 
>     who discloses this fact at seperate meetings that involved a very famous 
>     former editor of the "Linux Journal". 
> 
>     It is a fact, or at least it was until at least a year ago. 
> 
> I am willing to believe it is part of their motivation, but the 
> example of ATI shows that they can be convinced to set that motivation 
> aside. 


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