On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 05:45:14PM +0200, Ian McCulloch wrote:
> Yeah I tend to agree. Much as I like the philosophy of Free Software (I
> am a member of the FSF), I don't really care that nVidia has closed-source
> video drivers, because
>
> (1) it doesn't harm the free software community: it is a driver for a
> particular piece of hardware, it doesn't have issues with vendor lock-in
> or proprietary data formats that other software does. nVidia seem to do a
> pretty good job of maintaining the driver; if it was open sourced, they
> might not bother doing that and instead rely on 'the community' to
> maintain it.
Until the hardware company stops releasing new drivers to go with new
kernels. This is lockin just as much as software lockin. Avoiding
lockin, and retaining control of my data and my hardware, is THE prime
reason I believe in the GPL and do my best to avoid closed hardware
and software.
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