On 5/13/05, Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Until the OGP, I had never, EVER, heard an open source developer complain that they couldn't get RTL to the hardware they worked with. > > 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)
