On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:45:26PM +0000, José Fonseca wrote: > > Even if DRI stops being the main source of 3D drivers for Linux/BSD, it > will remain to be the main source of _open_source_ 3D drivers. That, > alone, gives DRI a competitive advantage over any other solution. Just > in the same way that it has given Linux, Apache, XFree86, and many other > successful OSS projects.
all those other successful open source projects, had open (or at least, known) hardware to work with. It's not the same equasion in the 3d graphics field. > Bare in mind that OSS developers don't need absolute market dominance of > the software they write. They obviously enjoy that what they write is > widely used - it means that is useful -, but they don't depend on it. True. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
