On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 05:32:30PM -0500, Dave Robillard wrote: > I'd rather not have people with this ignorant 'closed drivers = good' > opinion turning Linux into yet another Windows. If you want a sh***y > proprietary OS, there's plenty to choose from already. Do the rest of > us a favour and don't advocate turning Linux into yet another one.
I will follow you reasoning up to a point. Suppose we have a card X with a closed source driver. You will not use it. Now we make a new card Y, which is actually an X with the functionality of the driver pushed into the (closed source) firmware. We make a third card Z with the same functionality pushed inside the hardware. Will you use Y ? Will you use Z ? If the answer to either is yes, what is the essential difference ? -- FA
