http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/dri_driver_features.phtml On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote: > 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. > > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
