> Calinou admits it openly, he uses proprietary nvidia drivers, because he
claims he can't run xonotic without it. Which i find hard to believe since I
can run it with nouveau drivers on my gtx 650 perfectly fine. And when the
game depends more on cpu then anything and I have a crappy amd phenom 2.8ghz
he has an i7 lol.
I haven't seen Calinou say this, and I don't know if what you say is true.
But let's suppose it is, at least until Calinou clarifies.
Firstly, if Calinou wants 3-D acceleration, it's hardly unethical for him to
get it from a proprietary driver. It's almost entirely harming himself, not
others. Xonotic is a libre game and doesn't require any proprietary software,
or any hardware that requires proprietary software (I'm pretty sure it would
run just fine on a Libreboot X200).
Secondly, Nouveau doesn't work well for all Nvidia cards. The effort is
largely hit-and-miss; it's reverse-engineering, after all. In fact, future
Nvidia cards won't even be able to theoretically work with libre software,
because Nvidia has started to require signed firmware with Maxwell GPUs.
> How he puts down francis and calls him a liar, which francis seems to like
That little bit gave me a chuckle.
