On Wed, 2004-01-12 at 20:48 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > >The point is not that someone might reverse engineer and do a > >worse/better oss driver. The point is that nvidia, ati, xgi, matrox > >*should* do open source drivers. > > The point is that nobody has persuaded them of this, and in the matrox > case, they actually went backwards, from our perspective. These > companies cannot be shown to be incorrect, all we can say is that they > have a different perspective on the world than we do. Their different > perspective might make you want to boycott them, or try to change > their minds. If boycott is your thing, end of story. > > Otherwise, given the apparent absence of a benign, GPL-friendly deity > who will change their minds on our behalf, the question would seem to > be can they be convinced, and if so how? Does anybody think that the > attitude that Marek and Dave R. have offered might work? I, for one, > do not. Actually, I am not actually sure that they can be convinced, > which makes it all a bit irrelevant. > > --p >
Well Paul, I don't your attitude in that last sentence would work very well either. But you're not talking to RME right now trying to get specs/drivers, and neither am I. -DR-
