Hi, on this topic, IMHO, the key issue is the hardware documentation availability more than the closed-source or binary only drivers.
If the programming documentation was truly available (or the low-level electronic design of course), I am pretty sure a better driver would arise from the open-source community pretty soon. (Maybe I am too optimistic, but, well... I am pretty confident on this even for complex hardware...) So, preventing or allowing binary drivers, even if pretty important in practice, is probably not the most important long term issue. Open hardware is. And I'd even bet that inferior hardware backed by open drivers development could get overall preferable to commercial hardware as soon as it finally manage to get into existence. In other words: all my encouragements to stick to work and don't get (too much) distracted! (End of year celebrations excluded of course. ;-) Rodolphe _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
