Am Do, den 23.10.2003 schrieb Sean Middleditch um 19:27: > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 13:21, Christoph Wickert wrote: > > Niels Weber schrieb: > > >I know that nvidia is evil with releasing their drivers only in binary > > >format and so on. > > I don't know who said that. Maybe this person should take into account, > > that Nvidia is not allowed to release the source for it includes third > > party code, even if they wanted to. > And, before someone points out that NVIDIA might just release the > hardware specs, the hardware contains components and designs from third > parties as well. Don't buy NVIDIA hardware if you don't like the > situation. If they start loosing enough sales from this (*absurd > laughter*) then they might start making hardware free of third-party > components and released with open source drivers. Spouting "evil > capitalistic corporation" stuff isn't going to get anyone very far. ;-) Ecactly my thoughts. I just didn't want to get a hundred replies along the lines of "don't buy nvidia, they're evil as their drivers aren't GPL". I like their hardware and I have no real prblems with the binary drivers. Better than no drivers at all I think. And the situation with ATI isn't really any better, so what choice is there? -- Niels Weber <nath@xxxxxxxx>
