Re: [Cooker] Call for boycott

[James A. Sutherland]

On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> from the quill of Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on scroll
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Or have
> > a look at Kodak's digital cameras.
> 
> I have written software for the DC210.  They at least (or did at least)
> publish the interface specs to their cameras.  That is better than some.
>  Actually I might argue that publishing specs is better than binary only
> drivers, so Kodak could be considered better than Nvidia.

Yup - after all, the specs can be "converted" into with-source drivers. Also,
it allows non-Linux platforms (*BSD etc) to have drivers much more easily.


James.