On Wednesday 27 August 2008, Amos Shapira wrote:
> 2008/8/26 Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Amos presumably needs a working solution TODAY. Promises for bright
>
> Not TODAY, YESTERDAY.
>
> These monitors are sitting unused for almost a week now.
>
> > future are irrelevant.
> > If he chooses ATI cards, he should use only 1st reason to justify his
> > choice. This reason may well be enough to make the justification.
> >
> >> So with ATI we have an "installment plan" ("Tashlumim")
> >> in two steps:
> >> * Get working (but limited) solution today (either old
> >> cards or proprietary drivers or no 3D acceleration)
> >> * Get better support for the *same* hardware on the
> >> next upgrade of your distro.
> >
> > Plans of mice and men always change. ATI might fold 8 months from now,
> > or be taken over by nVidia and have its product lines discontinued, or
> > switch to solar powered 3D holographic displays.
> >
> >> Where's the second step for nVidia cards?
> >
> > If they are cheap enough, then the following plan would make economic
> > sense:
> > 1. Buy today the cheap nVidia cards (such as GeForce FX 5200, which I
> > chose because of its low price).
>
> Thanks for the specific model number. Will look into it.
>
> You pretty much nailed it, just like in the other mailing list I asked
> this question on - nVidia it is, with all the sympathy for ATI's FOSS
> support.
Great, just great. So while considering all the apathy hang-vidia shows
towards open-source, their crappy BLOBs, and they dropping support from older
cards, and not releasing specs, etc. - you're still supporting them with your
wallet. How do you expect hardware vendors to ever play nicely with
open-source operating systems, if even Linux users still buy their products
despite their general apathy towards us?
So, the real problem is with people like you, who are too pragmatist on their
free software ideals, and still support companies like nVidia. I personally
am not going to buy a product that's not properly supported under Linux, just
so I can be sure I'm not supporting such abusive companies with my wallet.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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