On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:25:36PM -0600, Ryan Underwood wrote: > > In an open software architecture like the DRI, we should do our best to > support proprietary vendors when they give us the means to do so, but > all the pissing and moaning about what they will and won't do should go > either to /dev/null or, more productively, towards opencores.org and a > fully open windowing accelerator and programmable 3D graphics pipeline > core.
I forgot one other place the pissing and moaning can go to: the sales department of all the vendors *except* the one you either are about to buy a new graphics card from, or have just bought one from. Hopefully letting them know that their silliness is hitting them in the bankbook might cause them to mention such things as Linux to managers and shareholders, which might give those the crazy idea that allocating more resources towards providing better support for open source developers just might help them sell more video cards in the end. Lots of 'might' in that paragraph.. well, it doesn't cost much to fire off an email or make a phone call anyhow. Perhaps consider it like playing the lottery. $1 here, $1 there doesn't hurt anybody. The difference in this lottery is that if anyone wins, we all win. -- Ryan Underwood, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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