On Jan 4, 2008 11:18 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Howie wrote: > > And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why closed source drivers suck. :) > > But economically speaking, while sucking, I go look for the GeForce 6200 > cards and shell out about $90 for 2 cards. > > I am not doing that if the nv driver were to function anywhere near the > nvidia driver. > > Still sucking, nvidia wins. But X sucks also because they started it > this time. >
My point was not that the existing open-source drivers are amazing, but that by not releasing their drivers as open, nVidia can force users to upgrade to newer cards by simply ceasing to support older cards on newer drivers or by not fixing older drivers to work with never environments. They cannot be blamed, since they cannot support older hardware forever, but idealistically the FLOSS community *would* be able to if the drivers were open. (FYI, I do use the closed nvidia driver, and I do support them for actually releasing a well-functioning Linux driver, but my point still stands.) -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers
