> >>plenty of open-source alternatives. Nvidia can keep > >>their binary-only rubbish as far as I am concerned. > > Just think how crap the linux 3D graphics market would > be without nVidias proprietary driver for TNT/GeForce > graphics cards...its intellectual property they are
We were talking mobos, not graphics cards. > trying to protect and with good reason. Its not like > we have to pay for the drivers for the nforce2... YES WE DO, and for the graphics drivers too. It takes time to locate and download the drivers and to compile them and get them to go (and for some things, like their mobo sensors, there isn't even a driver, or wasn't when I looked). Plus distribution providors need to do the run-around when things could just work by installing the kernel source. If you work for free, I've got a few jobs for you here. Once nvidia's paid me for my time I wasted on their mobo chipset, I'll consider buying another one. When there are plenty of open-source alternatives, it would be daft to choose the binary-only one. For graphcis cards you might grudgingly get annoyed and fork out anyway because there are no practical alternatives, but only until there are. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
