On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:34:03AM +0700, Beast wrote: > .. > NVidia just won't open the code for these drivers. They claim that the > code is full of proprietary secrets, essential for keeping their > competitiveness in the market. I think that's utter rubbish and just an > excuse. All of the vendors in this space steal each others employees and > ideas enough so that anything one of them has, the others get it a week > later. Also, isn't that what the plague of software patents is supposed > to be about ? After all, they're busily patenting their software > techniques (here in the USA at least) and that's supposed to inform > anyone "skilled in the art" how these things are done (which, if you've > ever read a software patent, is a complete joke. Software patents are > written like obfuscated "C" code), so what reason is there to hide the > code ? No, a much more likely explanation (in my opinion) is that, like > most proprietary code, it's as dirty as the Aegean stables. Probably > full of mixed licenses, code with no attribution or history of where it > came from; a legal quagmire. It's probably the cost of cleaning that > mess up that puts them off opening it up (after all, Hercules's > consulting rates are outrageous).
jadi betul kan, gara-gara mentalitas monopoli/kapitalisme ini orang jadi mirip anjing yang memperebutkan tulang :-) > > > >>Tentang ini, menurut saya karena user basenya belum besar, sehingga > >>tidak masuk hitungan bagi vendor untuk terus up to date. > > > > betul. user basenya blm besar tapi maunya banyak :) sebenarnya tidak, asal mereka tidak pernah berusaha memetik keuntungan dengan bilang bahwa mereka mensupport linux/freebsd/dragonflybsd/*bsd, padahal sebenarnya tidak. begitu bilang windows tidak disupport, pengguna windows tidak akan pakai gimp (misalnya), dan cari alternatif lain (di luar pertimbangan masalah features dan biaya). tapi kan anda tahu sendiri, banyak pedagang yang mengecoh pembeli. nampaknya cara satu-satunya ya konsisten, misalnya pakai perangkat (hardware) yang hanya memiliki driver dengan lisensi gpl (kalau bisa). kalau ini menarik (advokasi/promosi) tentunya banyak yang ikut, kalau banyak yang ikut, tidak ada cara lain bagi vendor (hardware) untuk bisa tetap jualan. Salam, P.Y. Adi Prasaja -- Berhenti langganan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arsip dan info: http://linux.or.id/milis
