I do understand the idea behind free open software, but at a certain degree
it becomes political more than about creativity.

If, by following some restrictive pattern of free software ,the artist is
removed from some major tools to create - there seems to go against the
idea. I don't see much 'free' in the 3d acceleration card - so what does it
leaves me with if my creative impulse is leading me toward massively
exploiting 3d acceleration?

For me to a certain extent there is politic and there is art. They both
affect each other and for me I think the creative impulse has to go beyond
these limitation. Already taking a stance against apple and Microsoft by
using open source in the OS and all the tools is already a big shift, having
the purity of everything should be 'free' seems like ideological extremism
that doesn't serve much purpose apart for self glorification at the end of
the day.

In the end what I think is important to look at is what block the creative
impulse, if it's big corporation with expensive software and closed source
tool that fill all the market block the creative impulse, then lets work
against these flow. In the other hand if being 'free' means to block some
creative impulse then what is the benefit from that. I think the middle path
is more interesting for me at the moment.

All that being said ~ that is how I feel this morning, it might change with
time ;) And would be really interested to read about what 'free' software
can support as far as 3d acceleration with some humph to it!

I think we are all doing a great job, some are more at one extreme and some
are more to another extreme, but we all seems to want to bring a new
awareness to computational art.

light


On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:04 PM, jaromil <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 02:10:09PM -0300, Bernardo Barros wrote:
> > hi jaromil,
> >
> > I'm glad that such a project exists!  Wouldn't be nice to have some
> > sort of list of the supported hardware? So people could use this list
> > to buy the hardware that they know will work with a free operating
> > system.
>
> one of such lists exists here:
> http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/index_html/video
>
> BTW on the HD front (high definition) some bad news about Intel, which
> we should convince to desist from such futile attempts to fight
> digital nature: we've seen it with DVD before....
>
>
> # Intel's latest DRM fiasco
>
> * http://www.defectivebydesign.org/intel-hdminsult
>
> Once again, we're seeing boneheaded reactions to the failure of a DRM
> scheme. DRM is largely ineffective against large-scale un authorized
> copying going on in Eastern Europe and Asia, and yet the large media
> companies are happy to parade the opposite as the truth. Instead of
> admitting their real goal of disrupting legitimate uses and
> restricting customers as much as possible -- forcing them to
> repeatedly purchase the same records, movies and TV shows again and
> again -- they pretend that this is technological progress.
>
> As you may have heard in the news, Intel is now threatening legal
> action against people using the recently discovered master key for
> HDMI.
>
>
> ciao
>
> - --
> jaromil, dyne.org developer, http://jaromil.dyne.org
>
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