Fabrice FACORAT wrote:
> Le Vendredi 7 Septembre 2001 10:17, Gr�goire Colbert scribit :
>
>
>>>nvidia is not the guilty.
>>>the pb seems to come from this sh.. of new emu10k1 drivers.
>>>
>>Hmmm, I don't like your "sh.." about emu10k1. You know, this driver are
>>co-developed by Creative Labs, and they are *opensource*, unlike
>>NVidia's (you can see at http://opensource.creative.com for bug reports
>>about emu10k1, they have a Bugzilla). So for philosophical reasons, you
>>would better say that "NVidia sucks" than Creative. At least, Creative
>>has made a significant step in the right direction.
>
> Please calm down.
> I use this word because of the fact that with the new driver, wine is unable
> to work if I try to play Midi ( err:midi:OSS_MidiInit ioctl on midi info for
> device 0 failed ). So I can't play Baldu's Gate II or Diablo II LOD anymore.
> So even if they are Opensource, .... this release of the drivers is crap !
> We have to say when there is a problem. So it was just concerning this
> release of the drivers.
>
> Concerning the others French enterprises, I'm desesparated. The same for
> STMicroelectronics ( even if I heard that they were talking about drivers in
> the process of development ). None of the big french companies really care of
> OpenSource. The only big informatique company, Bull, got so many difficulties
> that I think they are not going to be involve in a such hypothetic market
> with lower earnings.
> It's really a pity.
> I don't understand why a big french group still doesn't made the effort to
> support Mandreksoft ... It's only what Mandrakesoft lack : a big parrain and
> if this parrain could be French or European .... it will be better.
I agree. In fact, I only noticed Olitec (www.olitec.com) that recognizes
the existence of Linux among the french companies. That seems to be a
small exception.
I feel UbiSoft and Infogrames could greatly improve their audience if
they were the first major "entertainment" companies to release some
titles for Linux, but they simply *have faith* in Microsoft (some people
are just too stupid to see that Microsoft's motto is "kill them all").
They believe that Microsoft is not just *a* company, that it is *the*
company, and logically, they believe that the Xbox will be a great
success that will fill their pockets with money for the next 3 years. On
the other hand, they probably think that if tomorrow they released some
Linux ports of their games, they would be at risk to lose their precious
Xbox licenses, just to gain a little more money.
The real problem is that these companies have always considered
themselves worthless (due to the "french inferiority feeling"). But in
fact, Microsoft simply *cannot* live without some big and faithful
software editors like UbiSoft or Infogrames. Hence, Microsoft would not
take away the Xbox licenses if some Linux ports were done, because our
two french companies are important for Microsoft success (imagine if
they released all their games "only" on the Playstation2, Dreamcast or
GameCube!).
Maybe I should write to Titus... <grin>
Gr�goire
