2006-02-14 (火) の 11:49 -0600 に Les Mikesell さんは書きました: > On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 10:49, Guy Fraser wrote: > > > > > > Nvidia, ESS, S3, et al, don't have to buy documents to find out how to > > > make their hardware work on Linux, but they don't. They'd like, if they > > > > Just for clarity, are you saying NVidia does not provide drivers for > > Linux? > > They most certainly do, and they are good drivers. They may have a > > binary component which is not open source, but that is not relevant > > to this topic. > > No, that should be a different topic: How the GPL sabotages open > source adoption. The GPL restrictions have done more to > maintain the Microsoft monopoly than any Microsoft employee. Biases and misperceptions about the GPL have done ... > Even when a vendor tries their best to supply drivers it > doesn't work out very well and they aren't accepted in the > distributions. So, *BSD should have better driver availability that Linux? (Except for openBSD, since Theo enforces the mutual free licensing principle outside the contract.) Is there a full moon out tonight? > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > >
