Nick Rout, 2003-11-25 23:11:39: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 20:17:35 +1300 > Peter Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > wondering about the GeForce card(s) - as in don't they use an nvidia > > chipset& doesn't this present problems/hassles for linux users > I say what???? nvidia drivers may be closed source, but they have > excellent linux suport.
Oxymoron! :P > [Quoting from] linux journal, its latest edition [...] > The fact that Monarch [the system supplier] was able to get me, a solo > end user, direct access to an engineer who did pin down the problem > correctly, without having access to my machine, speaks well of NVIDIA's > commitment to support. Although I don't think we're going to see a GPL > driver for any NVIDIA card anytime soon, I think perhaps we're getting > the next best thing, a company that knows where the future is and is > committed to helping us get there without giving away its secret > recipe." [end of Linux Journal quote] > sounds pretty positive to me. (Hey Nick, I'm not flaming, okay? I just disagree, so I'm saying so :^) I don't find it positive that more and more companies are jumping on the "Linux" bandwagon, by providing proprietary software and claiming to "support" me. I find it insulting and offensive. If people just go along with this kind of thing, what was the point in the first place? We might as well give up and switch to Microsoft, Apple, etc., where everything's just peachy and the following things are a fact of life: Lock-in, bugs you can't do anything about, misery, desolation, distrust, secret file formats, viruses, plagues, pimples and warts, hair-loss, data-loss, adware, famine, forced upgrades, lies and dishonesty, uncertainty, crashes, split-ends and hang-nails, spyware, death, restricted freedom, and dags. There's nothing positive about it. As for drivers: hardware manufacturers making specifications available (i.e., to allow the development of free drivers), _that_ would be positive. Tim -- Timothy Musson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~trmusson/ A day for firm decisions!!!! Or is it?
