Zane Gilmore wrote:
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Standards? You call proprietary binary-only shockwave a standard to aspire to? Got its RFC handy?
You are correct. Shockwave is proprietary. But that is not what I meant.
Yes, and used sensibly Shockwave is cool/useful/whatever, at least thats my opinion. Same with the likes of nVidia video drivers, without which Linux gaming would not be near as well supported by game developers...
And yes, I am one of those not insane enough to browse with all that binary plugin stuff enabled. If I did enable it, no doubt I'd see some silly funny animation, I'm just not in the mood for it right now.
oh dear Volker, did you have a bad day?
The thing is that some people like to see whizzy graphics and hear groovy sounds when they browse the net. I do, but because I choose to browse the net with a Linux system does that mean I should keep away from proprietary stuff? 1 thing on my computer more than anything I am grateful for...the proprietary nVidia graphics driver, because it gives complete and utter functionality to the GeForce2 3D graphics card I have. Without it I could not play the 3D games I have without buying another card, but only some of the other cards have a Xfree86 3rd-party DRI driver, meaning many of them will not give accelerated 3D graphics.
Kind regards,
Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch.
