ptah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Vandoorselaere Yoann wrote:
> >
> > Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > >
> > > > Yeah yeah yeah... So is one suppose to settle for a
>
> > Ok, i will not repeat myself, there was already another nvidia
> > thread, just check it out.
> >
> > By doing such things you do not respect linux philosophy.
> >
>
> blah blah blah, I hear this crap all the time. I use linux
> because I like the power of the command line
> and the
> look and feel of it.
So you don't use linux, you use programs.
( you can compile all GNU tools under windows ).
> If things are open source, then thats
> great, but there is no hardened rule that companies *HAVE*
> to provide open source drivers for their hardware.
No, they follow the rules of the community.
> I don't
> care if its open source or a binary driver, as long as it
> supports my hardware and it works, then I am happy.
So you can come back to windows.
> Think of
> it what you will, I use it as a tool, thats all a computer
> is to me.
And when the tool crash cause a badly written driver,
you can't report / debug anything because you don't have the source and
the debugging informations were stripped.
Personnaly, i don't use a tool that crash.
--
-- Yoann http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~yoann/
It is well known that M$ product don't make a free() after a malloc(),
the unix community wish them good luck for their future developement.
