i always use SBLIVE as the perfect example of this.
Before creative opened the source for emu10k1, the driver was binary only,
only worked with 1 kernel, and didn't work that well.
After 1 month of being open source, the driver compiled, ran great, was smp
compatible, and was working better than ever. Now it's even better than
that.
If nvidia or any of the other hardware makers could do that, they would
benifit with code they could probably take to winblows and improve
performance over there.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoffrey Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] ISO image
> [...]
>
> > Remember also, complaining to the manufacturers can eventually pay off.
> > Witness the recent availability of open source drivers for Yamaha PCI
> > sound cards.
> >
> > Were I a hardware manufacturer, I wouldn't care what operating system
> > was installed on the machine it was going into as long as the hardware
> > was compatible (can't put an ISA card into a Mac, for example). And
> > that is how the manufacturers _used_ to view things. No matter what you
> > choose to blame the change on, it is still the manufacturers who are
> > making it difficult.
> >
>
> still, the binary drivers *is* a start. i guess they must be wondering why
> even with drivers the major distributions aren't contcating htem about
> licensing issues with including it in their main distro! :) in general
something
> in GNU/Linux without source .tar.gz, i don't use it ...
>
> back to the point, until they open source the drivers, or better still
release
> it under some free license, i ain't gonna vote to include htem in the
distro.
>
> --
> Geoff
>
>
