On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 00:09, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > 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 ?
It's a lot more likely that Z will work very well with a newer kernel/system/api/whatever with changes applied to the open source driver provided there are specs available. You can forget about that with product X once it gets discontinued. I take Z. Marek
