On 05/13/2005 03:36:07 AM, Timothy Miller wrote:
[ munch ]
You, as a consumer, want what is best for the community. What would
be the best thing to do here? Consider, just for a moment, the idea
that making the RTL available under an open source license (right
away) may not be the best thing for the community in the long term.
I want a 3D graphics card with OK performance which anyone can
write a device driver for. I really, really, don't care about
whether or not the RTL/Verilog/hardware design would be "free"
according to the FSF.
At the recent LinuxConf in Australia Wayne Piekarski, augmented
VR guru, said that he uses nVidia because they work, and that's
the criteria that matters to a 3D developer. I don't recall
Keith Packard complaining about "closed hardware" graphic cards
either when he was talking about the future of X Windows.
When one of these "release the RTL" zealots starts emailing
from a box that runs on a free CPU design rather than something
by Intel/AMD/IBM, maybe I'll pay some attention to them.
Hugh Fisher
DCS, ANU
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