What I recently did regarding software freedom.
J.B. Nicholson-Owens
jbn at forestfield.org
Fri Feb 6 02:23:06 UTC 2004
Don Levey wrote:
> 1) Which card would this be?
ATI Radeon 9000 AGP in this case.
> 2) How does this help the person who already has the NVIDIA card, apart from
> getting them to spend another $60?
It shows them that they have to be careful about buying hardware to work
with XFree86. $50 or $60 is not a big deal in computers but losing software
freedom is. I can't convey the value of software freedom by telling people
to adopt non-free software. A more easily used database of hardware (and a
simple database lookup program to run on Microsoft Windows and various free
software OSes) would help people not fall into the trap of obtaining
hardware they can't use on a particular free software system.
What you're doing is purposefully constructing a narrow situation and
rejecting any response that doesn't match your response. You do this to
make people believe that your way is the only way to play these 3D games. I
refuse to work within those silly boundaries. I demonstrated that for a
rather low fee one can purchase a great deal of functionality without giving
up software freedom.
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