Opinion: NVIDIA drivers are a BAD Thing [tm]

[Michael Robinson]

ATI doesn't make many Linux drivers and considers the few "a courtesy".  
Nvidia has them on their site for every card, including the newest 
(released) FX.

Michael Robinson
mrobinson at fuzzymuzzle.com
www.fuzzymuzzle.com

Sean Estabrooks wrote:

>On Tue, 18 May 2004 16:21:10 -0400 (EDT)
>"Luc Bouchard" <luc at luker.on.ca> wrote:
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>>Sean Estabrooks said:
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>>>So, to the question of how to promote more open source adoption.
>>>It seems to be well accepted that the market place _rules_ and every dollar
>>>spent is a vote.   Being simplistic then, the more "votes" that companies
>>>get because they support open source (intel seems to be a pretty good actor
>>>these days for example)  the better.    The fewer "votes" that companies
>>>who don't support open source get (NVIDIA in this case) the better.
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>>You are forgetting one thing here Sean, economies of scale.  Let's assume that NVIDIA
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>Not forgotten.  You're right of course, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't help
>if everyone who benefits from open source made an effort to support 
>open source companies.   It would be enough to allow some company to 
>carve out a niche market for itself and survive.    IBM or Intel might be more
>motivated to make a real contribution in this regard if people seemed a 
>little more willing to stand up for open source principles.
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>>But I will keep using everything I can to have a workable machine at home
>>as a linux desktop.
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>My point is just that your attitude is very prevelent and therefore there's no hope
>of making much of a real market even for a niche player.   ATI for example
>has really backed off of open source and it may be because Nvidia got just as
> much Linux business without doing the same (this is a complete guess)
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>Just wish fewer people felt so compelled to support closed source companies.
>While understandable, it's really a shame.
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>Cheers,
>Sean.
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