Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 19 Nov 2003 20:57:39 -0800 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: Announce: ndiswrapper |
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:49:05 +1100 Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote:
| Neil Brown wrote: | | >On Thursday November 20, piggin@cyberone.com.au wrote: | > | >>You have to admit its good for end users though. And indirectly, what | >>is good for them is good for us. Take the nvidia example: end users get | >>either a binary driver or nothing. If we were somehow able to stop | >>nvidia from distributing their binary driver, they would say "OK". | >> | > | >Is it good for end users? It allows them to buy a computer with an | >nvidia graphics controller because "NVidia supply drivers", and then | >discover that support is only as good as NVidia are willing to make | >it. I'm still waiting for some sort of power management support for | >the nvidia controller in my notebook. If the driver and the specs | >were open, I could possibly do it myself. On the other hand if there | >were no NVidia drivers, I never would have made the (arguable) mistake | >of buying this notebook. | > | | I'm all for open specs, but in reality that doesn't always happen. | (out of interest, are there any OS 3d drivers for any current cards?) | | I know what you mean, but I would find nvidia more at fault for not | providing power management than no OS drivers. | | > | >Ofcourse we cannot and should not stop people from providing the | >option of binary only drivers, but I'm not convinced that we should | >acknowlege that people who provide binary-only drivers are doing a | >useful service for anyone but themselves. | > | | No I wouldn't say that, I meant the Linux Kernel is doing the end users | a favour by allowing binary modules.
that's questionable since we can't support them (i.e. fix bugs/problems with them).
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