adi wrote:
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 05:54:43PM +0700, fade2blac wrote:
kompromi itu penggembosan, sadar/tidak, suka atau tidak suka. misalnya
soal binary only driver, bukan hanya linux saja yang refots, bahkan
pengelola dragonflybsd pun mengeluh. sementara, vendor 'malas' mengelola
drivernya untuk selalu uptodate, dan menyerahkan support pada komunitas.
Kan biaya R&D hardware mahal. Komunitasnya yg nggak tahu terima kasih,
sudah dikasih drivernya, meskipun binary, masih aja nyalahin :-))
jadi, buka saja source-nya toh ... itu kan yang diminta sama matt
(dragonflybsd). biar kalau ndak sempat jangan merepotkan orang lain.
apalagi di-GPL-kan, sekaligus anti freeloader (kalau ini sulit he..he..).
tentang buka-bukaan source, sebenarnya mungkin alasannya bukan hanya
dagang semata:
http://samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/column06.html
A Free Software Confessional
..
NVidia just won't open the code for these drivers. They claim that the
code is full of proprietary secrets, essential for keeping their
competitiveness in the market. I think that's utter rubbish and just an
excuse. All of the vendors in this space steal each others employees and
ideas enough so that anything one of them has, the others get it a week
later. Also, isn't that what the plague of software patents is supposed
to be about ? After all, they're busily patenting their software
techniques (here in the USA at least) and that's supposed to inform
anyone "skilled in the art" how these things are done (which, if you've
ever read a software patent, is a complete joke. Software patents are
written like obfuscated "C" code), so what reason is there to hide the
code ? No, a much more likely explanation (in my opinion) is that, like
most proprietary code, it's as dirty as the Aegean stables. Probably
full of mixed licenses, code with no attribution or history of where it
came from; a legal quagmire. It's probably the cost of cleaning that
mess up that puts them off opening it up (after all, Hercules's
consulting rates are outrageous).
Tentang ini, menurut saya karena user basenya belum besar, sehingga
tidak masuk hitungan bagi vendor untuk terus up to date.
betul. user basenya blm besar tapi maunya banyak :)
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