On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 13:43:54 -0500
 John Check <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 10:26 am, brett holcomb wrote:
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:48:53 -0600

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.

That's a point that bears looking at again. The Nvidia drivers
work. If we look at RMS history, it was a driver that -sucked-
that got him started. HP wouldn't accept a patch for a printer
driver IIRMFC. Nvidia' unified driver means as long as they're making chips your Nvidia card is maintained. I'll take bets that Nvidia will
release the code base when they do obsolete the architecture.
Maybe I should have said - many feel that only opensource is acceptable and all else is "TAINTED". In an ideal world it would be nice to have all open source but that isn't here yet. I agree - I've used Nvidia based cards for a long time and love the unified architecture.


_______________________________________________
Flightgear-users mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users


Reply via email to