ptah wrote:
> blah blah blah.. I have been using Unix for sometime now (10 years)
> and linux for about 2 years, and yes games are important to me on
> my home systems. Nvidia made a mistake, I admit, but if the same
> thing happened again next week, I would download them again.
>
> I don't see this situation happening again though from Nvidia,
> so this is sort of a mute point.
Um, yes nVidia said they will correct their GPL violation. That's not
what concerns me. What concerns me is people demanding that we start
putting more non-free software in the distro. Pretty soon it'll get to
the point where 25% of the distro (probably mostly drivers) are closed
source. There's something disturbing about that. I don't want to go back
to waiting 6 months to a year for a vendor to update their drivers. The
power of the free software movement is to allow anyone with the proper
knowledge to improve code..make it more efficient. I'd be just about
willing to bet that within a month of nVidia releasing GPL'ed drivers,
their video cards would see much improvement in their performance under
Linux. So I guess my point is, if people want to buy closed source
hardware, they can install the drivers themselves.
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Steve Fox
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