On 10/29/2012 03:06 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Worrier Poet <worrier.p...@comcast.net> > wrote: >> >> At the same time, I have reservations about supporting AMD -- or more to >> the point their subsidiary, NVidia -- when purchasing hardware. It seems >> to me that Intel has been a better friend to FOSS than its competition. >> I run my systems without proprietary software or firmware. > > Nvidia is an independent company with a market cap. of $7.46B > AMD has a market cap. of $1.46B > > Nvidia is not and could not become (in the foreseeable future) an AMD > subsidiary. I suppose the other way around could happen (still > unlikely though). > > ATI is the graphics card company that was bought by AMD some years ago > (they merged though, ATI does not exist as a company or even a brand > name anymore). Though AMD has not contributed as much to the graphics > stack as Intel, they have been pretty good. And they release actual > specs which Intel doesn't do. Certainly they are far more friendly to > FOSS than Nvidia. > > Cheers, > Kelly Clowers >
Ah, yes. You're quite right. I was having a serious senior moment, there. (They are about about the only kinds of moments I have these days.) From your explanation I gather that you have correctly interpreted my rambling and have understood that I was thinking that it was Nvidia which had been purchased by AMD. And so it falls to me to do the appropriate Emily Litella bit and say..."Never mind!" But I still do appreciate Intel. And it's probably because of the crap I went through over graphics subsystems. (I've had my share of trouble with ATI graphics, too, but nothing like the suffering over Nvidia graphics.) And -- come to think of it -- I appreciate how easy it has been to work with Intel wireless and Ethernet, too. Nonetheless, I can now see that I should at least be considering AMD when I'm looking for processors. Thanks for the considerate nature of your correction. I actually deserved a solid smack with the clue-by-four. Regards, the worrier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/508edc23.6030...@comcast.net
