On 3/14/07, Gordon JC Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
After a few days of careful consideration, I've decided that I no longer
want to be involved in developing software for Linux. It's been a
difficult decision to make, having used Linux as my main desktop OS for
around 10 years now, but I feel that the community as a whole is going
in a direction that is not compatible with my moral compass.
To that end, I'm pulling everything I've written under the GPL or a
GPL-compatible licence. If there are copies out there, great, feel
free. Anything I'm interested in will be rewritten from the ground up
under a BSD-style licence, which to be honest I've always preferred.
Part of the reason for this is the increasing difficulty of using binary
drivers with Linux. I know a lot of people don't like them, but I like
to have things like accelerated video *and* custom kernels without all
the buggering about involved in getting it working. In particular the
Debian-based distributions seem to be intentionally hamstrung when comes
to supporting binary-only drivers, which makes running the custom kernel
required for low-latency work *and* the binary nVidia driver almost
impossible.
I don't want to be associated with this nonsense any more. It's not
what Free Software is about.
What do binary-only drivers have to do with Free Software?
Besides, what you want is probably impossible. You can't have
pre-comiled, binary-only drivers *and* a custom kernel.
I hear Mac OS X is nice; maybe it would suit your needs better.
