Hear hear
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Andy Ross wrote:
> I _really_ shouldn't be getting involved in this...
>
> Curtis L. Olson wrote:
> > Tom Brinkman writes:
> > > Try buyin current hardware that's not Intel-M$-gang stuff
> > >
> > > Like I said, nVidia works great with Windoze
> >
> > Intel had a very prominant position at LinuxWorld ... I don't think
> > the lines are quite as clear as you are drawing them.
>
> And don't forget that NVidia is competing directly with Intel in the
> high-end chipset market with their "nforce" chipset family. And that
> they thumbed their nose at Microsoft from the very early days with
> their (really good, really prompt) support of OpenGL, or the fact that
> they release their linux drivers with the same feature set* as their
> windows ones. NVidia is basically supporting Linux in EXACTLY THE
> SAME WAY that they support windows users, and I think they ought to be
> applauded for that, or at least not ridiculed.
>
> NVidia drivers are proprietary software. If that's the issue you have
> with them, then grind THAT axe**. Don't confuse the issue with all
> this evil empire nonsense about the "Intel-M$-gang". It makes you
> look like a lunatic.
>
> Corporations are corporations, and they act out of self interest.
> Sometimes they do good things, sometimes they do bad things. I don't
> "trust" them any more than you do, and prefer free (as in speech)
> software to proprietary versions when I can get it. But when a
> company offers me software for free (as in beer) that does what I
> want, I generally use it. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
>
> Andy
>
> * Take a look at the register combiners, or vertex program extensions.
> No other vendor has this kind of feature support in OpenGL. ATI's
> windows-only Radeon drivers are a joke in comparison.
>
> ** Point us at free drivers for different hardware. I run the DRI
> drivers for the Matrox G400 on my other machine, and they work very
> well. Not as fast as the GeForce hardware, certainly, but quite
> acceptable. It's a nice piece of work.
>
> --
> Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems
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