----- Original Message ----- From: Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 1:32 PM Subject: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Re: Open Source Nvidia Driver
> * Erik Hofman -- Friday 25 January 2002 15:50: > > Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > > Because SGI recently sold a couple of 3D-graphics patents to Microsoft and > > > Microsoft could be interested not to license these to companies that > > > support anything else than DirectX. So Nvidia could drop OpenGL support for > > > their cards in the next years and you can throw your card into the bucket ... > > > given that you want to upgrade your Linux kernel some day. > > > > Neh, most of the hardware designers of Nvidia come from SGI ... > > No worry about that. > > ... which doesn't buy them anything, if MS owns important patents and > wants to push DirectX and hurt other OSes. And don't tell me that they > wouldn't! Neiter Nvidia nor SGI is in control then, and certainly not > the "owner" of a Nvidia card. > I am not paranoid and I don't think that my scenario will become reality > soon, if at all. I just wanted to explain why it =does= make sense to > prefer open solutions over closed ones. As long as you don't get the specs > you are not really owner of your graphics cards. You depend on the > good will of your 'master'. Nvidia decides what you can do with the > product that you paid for. It's like if your only rented it. No problem > for Windows users, of course. They are used to it and don't deserve better. > But there's a better world out there. :-> > > m. > I'm in totaly agreement with you. We have now a great oportunity to run Linux on our PC and a FGFS because some of us decided have look behind scenes. I realy have to thank ATI in oppening its architecture and GATOS project for its great work. So a can see TV under OS Linux . If there were no driver for that and no interest from ATI I probably would have to let my TV getting dust. Sergio Roth _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
