On Thursday 12 May 2005 22:04, Hugh Fisher wrote: > 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.
Did you ask him? I did not ask Keith about this specifically, but I get the impression the only reason he does not complain is that he is resigned to the status quo. I will ask him about your specific point, if you like. Mike Harris on the other hand is quite vocal about the depressing situation of closed 3D hardware. I will ask him your specific question too, if you like. There are a bunch of Red Hatters in the former Cygnus office I happen to know are very direct in stating that the logic source for the card should be open, and that they will work on it if it is. > 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. That is a little over the top, Hugh ;-) I'm emailing from a box that runs on Linux, please do not call me a zealot. Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
