Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 13:00:33 -0400, > Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Let me try to be polite about that, the drivers in FC6 thru FC9 are proprietary? >> Really? Sounds like FUD to me! >> > > But they probably aren't going to work with recent kernels. So that makes them > not very useful for using them on recent Fedora. > > >> figure you will like them for that when you buy again (I do), and unpaid open >> source developers will work on new features, because their "compensation" is >> from either using what they write or impressing other developers with it. >> > > Also the ones that are paid to develop graphics drivers have 3D support > low on the their list of things to work on. Airlie covers some of this in: > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2009-November/042327.html > > >> Unfortunately open source fanatics will continue to post as if license purity is >> more import than working computers. I've worn out my urge to warn users. >> > > The topic is more nuanced than that. Part of it is RPMFusion users getting > support here instead of RPMFusion. Part of it is that Fedora's stated > principals are such that it attracts people who care more about free software > than say Ubuntu. Part of it is if you want to change corporations' > behaviors you need to affect their bottom line. That is why some people here > will advocate not buying nVidia hardware even when it is cheaper for the > performance when using the binary drivers. Part of it is people using > nVidia's driver stuff directly which changes your system in ways that > may be hard to undo later and may introduce security problems that are > hard to fix unless nVidia issues an update. > Given the reality, that users bought computers which Linux supported only a few years ago, and in some cases paid extra to get computers which ran Linux, it really sends a message to have that hardware become unsupported two years later. Thanks guys. Hand MSFT a big bag of FUD about "will Linux even run on your computer by the time it's depreciated or paid for?" Sadly, for once it's true. :-( -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we used in creating them." - Einstein -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
