Opinion: NVIDIA drivers are a BAD Thing [tm]
Will Backman
whb at ceimaine.org
Tue May 18 17:43:05 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 13:36, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
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> 6. I have already complained loudly to NVIDIA about their drivers
> being closed. I have made it clear that this *will* be major factor in
> future purchases.
>
> 7. In the future, we all want open-source. *NOW*, we want
> open-source *and* we want more widespread adoption of Linux. For users who
> are converting from Linux, being told to throw away a $100 video card
> because its unsupported sucks and reflects badly on Linux. Being told to
> throw away the same $100 video card which has perfectly good working
> drivers from the manufacturer because those drivers are not open makes us
> look like idiots. In marketing, customer perception *is* reality.
>
Funny thing is that XFree86 changed from multiple servers to a single
monolithic server with driver modules for the purpose of supporting
binary modules (among other reasons).
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