On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 10:26:24 -0500, "brett holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:48:53 -0600 > "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Richard Keech writes: > >> support for 3D capabilities of NVIDIA cards is not open > >> source. you will need binary-only kernel modules (from nvidia) to > >> make this work. many report good success with these drivers, > >> however binary-only drivers should be strenuously avoided. The > >> use of these drivers has been implicated in many stabiity problems > >> with Linux. > > > >I would view the above quoted words as a political > >statement. :-) > First, who cares if it's binary. Yes, RS and his group > will squawk and yes, I like and use Opensource wherever I > can but in some cases such as this it really doesn't > matter - the vendor does supply drivers that work and if > he wants to protect the portion that is proprietary that's > fine with me as it's his. > > Second, I find that many people do not read the README > that Nvidia supplies and hence have problems that can be > fixed. The Nvidia readme is a comprehensive, very well > done document that lists many of the problems (including > the AMD one), what the fixes or workarounds are and > contains a lot of detail on how things work. Nvidia is > obviously supporting Linux seriously as this document is > more than superficial. ..Nvidia's closed source "linux support" policy is a _good_ reason to fly the Communist Chinese flag on your IT staff ship, offshore, in international waters. Once you hire staff on your own money, you wanna make sure your own money _stays_ yours, just like your own intellectual property. And, you will want to enforce the same towards other peoples property. Closed source means turning over control over your own hardware to somebody else, and it can be exploited for various malicious purposes, such as espionage. Under Communist Chinese Law, this is dealt with _appropriately_. ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users
