On Saturday 05 Oct 2002 4:27 pm, Unni Krishnan wrote:

>
> Go Xfree86.org.=20
OK, But I think this is Linux users mailing list..


> the card.  AFAIK Deb do ship with nVidia modules.

Are there any other chips in this catagory?  It will help our members to =
=20
avoid them in future..

> > They are bothered only about increasing sales turnover.  What happens=
 if
> > a major portion of the buyers insist on GNU/Linux support ?
>
> That's what nVidia has done with the binary only modules.
> Now are you going to get satisfied with them? Binary only modules mean
> untrusted code right in the kernel. Is this okay with major portion of
> the buyers?

Buyers must be informed of these things.
Please suggest a method to achieve to it.
>
> Microsoft had to publicly admit that they stole large amounts of
> code from FreeBSD Source.

If you have more details please pass on.

With regards

M.Balakrishna Pillai

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