--- Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 18:14 -0400, Gerry Doris > wrote: > > Wow, don't you ever get off your soapbox? Don't > you think you've made > > your point by now??? > > Move on to something else and give it a rest. > > Will you move on to something else and give it a > rest by not advising > the proprietary drivers? > > Rui > When proprietary drivers are all that's available you use them. Whether or not you like it. It's philosophies like yours that make it so hard for any of the "proprietary" companies (hardware, software, etc) to even WANT to create stuff for Linux. Because the "zealots" will rip them apart for even trying. They dont HAVE to release a video driver for their card in ANY format. They released it because they wanted to sell more video cards, and they saw that Linux was a market share that they wanted. Getting a proprietary "black box" driver is better than getting no driver at all. Believe it or not, companies do deserve to make money off of their products. So what if their driver contains "black box" proprietary code. They're not charging you for the driver. Linux is about "free as in speech" not "free as in beer". Do you think Oracle releases an Open Source version of their high-end databases? Hell no. It's all "black box". ===== -------------------------------------------------------------- "Never memorize what you can look up." -Albert Einstein
