Frank Tanner III wrote:
--- Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 16:37 -0700, Frank Tanner III
wrote:
You have your beliefs and I have mine. And mine
is
that people deserve to try to make a living off of
their code, hardware, service they provide.
Do not invert roles here, mister.
*You* said they have a right to make money, and *I*
said they have a
right to try to make money.
The *REASON* their driver is proprietary and has
"black box" components is SIMPLE. There are
proprietary pieces of code in the video card
itself.
These drivers need to access these pieces of code.
The drivers would have enough information in them
to
deduce exactly what the code in the card is doing.
So, in effect, they would be, in effect, "giving
away"
their proprietaty card stored on the video card
itself.
This is bullshit. The reason, stated so by NVIDIA a
few times, seems to
be related to software patents.
choice. Me? I will use their cards, and their
drivers, because I like their products.
Do you like MACROVISION? I hope you do, because you
get it, wether you
like it or not.
Rui
I guess that's the difference between you and I. I
don't attempt to pirate video using my NVidia card, so
Macrovision protection doesn't matter to me.
Gentlemen, can you please take this outside--perhaps to Usenet or some
chat room somewhere where they enjoy flamewars? It simply isn't
appropriate for this forum and I'm rather tired of having to scroll past
all of the invective and diatribes being spouted on this thread.
Either drop it or continue it OFF LIST.
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