On Saturday 28 Aug 2004 10:16 am, Raj Mathur wrote: > - Do non-free drivers make sense in the kernel? Given the choice > between a non-free driver in the kernel and not being able to use > (some features of) a device, which would you rather choose? > > [My answer: the latter. For instance, I don't use the closed-source > NVidia drivers for my graphics card, even though I have to use > software GL]
My answer is also the latter. But I do use the closed source drivers for nvidia. And even though it is a pain to recompile the driver everytime there is a kernel upgrade, I prefer that .. simply because just like me, each and every other person who uses nvidia, feels the same pain. And this prompts all of us to always ask our hardware wallahs for mobos and cards which dont have nvidia in the future. Every time I have to recommend hardware to a customer who plans to use Linux in graphical mode, I discourage him from buying nvidia, and instead using freer drivers like s3 (I am not sure if ATI drivers are open source or not). > > - Wouldn't it make more sense to lobby the manufacturers to open their > protocols and algorithms rather than waste time bitching about > free vs non-free stuff? > > [My answer: Yes it would; I've been in constant communication with > Motorola to open up the A760 mobile phone synch specs so that a free > synch client can be written for Linux. If they don't do it within a > reasonable period of time, expect a diatribe against Motorola and > their non-free-software-friendly policies ;) ] My motorola c650 has the same hardware interface as yours. The worst thing about motorola is that, leave alone linux, even for windows they *sell* the syncing software for their phones. Nokia and Samsung makes them available freely. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya * Puroga Technologies * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: http://www.puroga.com * Home: http://www.sandipb.net PGP/GPG Signature: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3 "He's still funny, but not 'ha-ha' funny." --Ralph Wiggum Kamp Krusty (Episode 8F24) _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
