On Tuesday 06 December 2005 14:49, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Sure. But that doesn't mean there is no purchase power. HP, Dell and IBM
> and co DO have purchasing power over NVidia and ATI. If they tell ATI or
> NVidia to either go open source (unlikely) or rearchitect their drivers
> to do the "hot IP" in userspace, it will happen.
Proprietary code in userspace is not much better.
> And YOU can influence Dell and HP and IBM again. By complaining to their
> sales people. By letting them know binary modules aren't going to cut it.
Neither is binary-only userland stuff.
Moving the problem doesn't solve it.
--
Luke-Jr
Developer, Utopios
http://utopios.org/
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