On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 21:30:28 +0100 Matthieu Herrb wrote: > On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 9:02 PM, rhubbell <rhubb...@ihubbell.com> wrote: > > > Yes, I'd like to see some pointers also. I recall that there was > > discussion (might've been on linux kernel) a while ago about a > > partially-open video card. Why doesn't the community support that? > > You mean http://www.opengraphics.org ? > What makes you say that? How did *you* contribute?
Why did I say that? Let's take a poll on this list of how many people are using one of those cards? Or any list, anywhere. I have not contributed to it in anyway. But why is that relevant? Can you explain? And how did you contribute? > > > I recall that price was a factor in lack of uptake. > > Seems to me that opensource is farsical if it runs on closesource > > hardware. So where's the opensource hardware? Seems like the new world > > order isn't going to allow that. The trend in hardware looks like a > > race to keep control. Seems like we are going to be paying for the > > hardware but not owning; instead leasing. > > > > Or am I behind the times and there's salvation from some beneficent > > hardware maker in Taiwan? > > Making hardware is a lot more difficult than writing software. So it > takes more resources and more skills. This is probably why there aren't > so many of them. You're saying the barrier to entry is too high? I'm not expert but I don't believe that is why. There are other barriers. > > I'd recommend you read the wikipedia page: > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_hardware_and_FOSS> I think I may have read that a while ago...I'll look.
