OK, I got two of this one. On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 21:16, Terry Mathews wrote: > Also, I know in my heart that should nVidia decide to stop developing Linux > drivers, they will find a way to get the proper information to the DRI > program. I imagine that they would require DRI to not distribute source on > their card support, and to sign an NDA on some parts of the driver. > > Not unreasonable considering that their driver architecture is the most > advanced in the industry. One driver can talk to any card, from the latest > GF3 to the oldest TNT. A serious advantage over ATi and Matrox, something > that might help ATi to gain on nVidia... > > At least nVidia delivers a working, good driver, even if it isn't open > source. Promise, for example, has their own binary driver that sucks really > bad, and they even go so far as to try and sabotage the driver development > programs for the open source driver for their softRaid cards... > > Terry > > <js> And to add to this, it's sad that some people worry about what may > > or may not happen in the future. Consider this, Nvidia is supporting > > Linux, they are providing drivers which is more than some companies are > > doing and some people fail to give them their props for that. More so, > > some companies support Linux by releasing the hardware specifications > > and leaving it up the Open Source programmers to implement, then they > > ride the we support Linux wave. Nvidia is using their programing talent > > to support these cards, there is something to be said for that. I don't > > care as much about how the support is coming, as long as it is there. > > Now there are those who are more philosophically "pure" then me, and > > they have the choice to use what they want. As I have that choice for > > myself. I accept the reality that the programing talent in the Open > > Source world can not keep up with every piece of hardware for the pc > > world and if a manufacture choices to support there hardware they have > > the right to chose how, be it open source or not. > > > > As to the argument I am a slave to them because I use there cards and > > drivers is a far cry from being a slave because of my data being locked > > in a closed format. I can switch a video card much quicker than I can > > change critical stored data. It's only a piece of hardware, it's not my > > data which is more important for me to own access to. > > > > ------------=_1012359956-762-3850 > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- -------------------------------------- Mike White Linux User #193432
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