On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 13:36, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: -snip- > 6. I have already complained loudly to NVIDIA about their drivers > being closed. I have made it clear that this *will* be major factor in > future purchases. > > 7. In the future, we all want open-source. *NOW*, we want > open-source *and* we want more widespread adoption of Linux. For users who > are converting from Linux, being told to throw away a $100 video card > because its unsupported sucks and reflects badly on Linux. Being told to > throw away the same $100 video card which has perfectly good working > drivers from the manufacturer because those drivers are not open makes us > look like idiots. In marketing, customer perception *is* reality. > Funny thing is that XFree86 changed from multiple servers to a single monolithic server with driver modules for the purpose of supporting binary modules (among other reasons).
