Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

2005-03-01 Thread Ben Johnson
If people could prefer to code in that way back then, I have no difficulty believing that there are people today who honestly prefer a similar coding style when they write device drivers. Interesting point, yet maybe this coding style was preferred because of much simpler hardware at the time

Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

2005-02-28 Thread Ben Johnson
Maybe debian-x, maybe debian-devel or maybe you need a new list. Ok, debian-wankers, got it. If some people feel the topic is so absurd, why do they waste their time answering rudely ? I expect contradiction, but if gratuitously insulting others is some game, let them play with their

Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

2005-02-28 Thread Ben Johnson
--- Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think MJ Ray was answering rudely there My sincere apologies to MJ Ray if I misunderstood what he was saying. Please don't let a few people spoil your outlook on debian-legal as a whole. - Josh Triplett Thank you, this is refreshing.

Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

2005-02-26 Thread Ben Johnson
d'Alméras --- Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:02:50PM -0800, Ben Johnson wrote: I would like to hear your comments on the matter before I submit a bug report asking for the removal from base of the nv X driver and possibly also of the rivafb kernel module

Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

2005-02-25 Thread Ben Johnson
Hi list, I would like to hear your comments on the matter before I submit a bug report asking for the removal from base of the nv X driver and possibly also of the rivafb kernel module for severe policy violation. The code for nv is voluntarily obfuscated, in effect making it proprietary: its