Am Do, den 23.10.2003 schrieb Sean Middleditch um 19:27:
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 13:21, Christoph Wickert wrote:
Niels Weber schrieb:
I know that nvidia is evil with releasing their drivers only in binary format and so on.
I don't know who said that. Maybe this person should take into account, that Nvidia is not allowed to release the source for it includes third party code, even if they wanted to.
And, before someone points out that NVIDIA might just release the hardware specs, the hardware contains components and designs from third parties as well. Don't buy NVIDIA hardware if you don't like the situation. If they start loosing enough sales from this (*absurd laughter*) then they might start making hardware free of third-party components and released with open source drivers. Spouting "evil capitalistic corporation" stuff isn't going to get anyone very far. ;-)
Ecactly my thoughts. I just didn't want to get a hundred replies along the lines of "don't buy nvidia, they're evil as their drivers aren't GPL". I like their hardware and I have no real prblems with the binary drivers. Better than no drivers at all I think. And the situation with ATI isn't really any better, so what choice is there?