nvidia

Scott van Looy scott at ethosuk.org.uk
Tue Oct 30 13:56:30 UTC 2007


Today Les Mikesell did spake thusly:

> Scott van Looy wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Just because this old card works for you at the moment doesn't mean it
>>>> always will. NVidia are very good at supporting legacy hardware, other
>>>> companies are less so, I was merely using them as an example as that's
>>>> what we were talking about.
>>> 
>>> If/when it stops working I'm sure it will be due to the hardware crapping 
>>> out.
>>> 
>>> Yes, NVidia is very good at supporting their legacy hardware...so it would
>>> have been appropriate to use a company that isn't, just to be fair and not
>>> have someone read your message out of context and believe you are knocking
>>> NVidia.
>> 
>> I _am_ knocking NVidia. They should open their damn drivers ;)
>
> Why, instead of you choosing an OS that cooperates with vendor efforts? 
> First, they claim that they don't own what you want them to give you, and 
> second, what basis do you have to tell them what to do even if that was a 
> legal option for them?

FUD. Supposition.

> On the other hand, if Linux were more cooperative with vendor drivers perhaps 
> there would soon be a large enough base of users that would make it 
> attractive to have a source-available driver and they would pay what it takes 
> to obtain the right to do that.

I'll just stick to Intel/ATI, if it's all the same to you...

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