On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 17:30 -0500, Sean Estabrooks wrote: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:42:00 -0600 > "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Do not give in to the Dark Side. Remember that what you want is better > > support, and to do that you vote with your dollars. Do not focus your > > primary goal on hurting Nvidia, since that gains you nothing and in fact > > loses you someone who does provide some support where others provide > > none. > > > > Hi Rodolfo, > > Some people like myself believe that the best support comes from open > source. While Nvidia and companies that take similar strategies are > obviously not evil they're not the type of company that i'd support > through purchases. > > I'd much rather support companies like Intel that are going the extra > mile. While Intel don't have 3D products that compete head to head > at the top level today [...] Sean, You've quoted me out-of-context and incorrectly. My God, man, did you really read my post? And did you notice that I was specifically answering someone whose point was "let's go crush Nvidia and hurt their sales"? My point was that people should not set out in a crusade to boycott Nvidia, since that is not the real goal. The goal is to get better support and more open-source drivers. To do that, we should support companies who *do* open-source the drivers, and we should demand and clamor for those products and those drivers. After all, if a company opens their driver and it doesn't help their sales, then they've gained nothing, have they? So buy stuff that supports open source. If, apart from working *positively* to get more support for the open- source cause, someone feels compelled to go out on a crusade to destroy a video-card maker, then I suggest that Nvidia is not the right target. *You* don't need top-of-the-line capabilities, but others do. Must they go back to Windows? Or do we want them to be able to use Linux? Because I am not aware of any other company who offers a $500 video card that has Linux drivers of any sort. Do you know of any? At the top end of the market, I am not aware of *any* company which provides more Linux support than Nvidia. Corrections (factual!) welcome. However, I *am* aware of several companies that provide no Linux support whatsoever. So if you must crusade against someone, then start with the worst "offenders". I submit that Nvidia is not the worst offender and hence not an appropriate target for those so destructively-minded. Cheers, -- Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
