[linux-audio-dev] Re: Behringer

[Dave Robillard]

On Wed, 2004-01-12 at 03:38 +0100, Marek Peteraj wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 00:09, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 05:32:30PM -0500, Dave Robillard wrote:
> > 
> > > I'd rather not have people with this ignorant 'closed drivers = good'
> > > opinion turning Linux into yet another Windows.  If you want a sh***y
> > > proprietary OS, there's plenty to choose from already.  Do the rest of
> > > us a favour and don't advocate turning Linux into yet another one.
> > 
> > I will follow you reasoning up to a point.
> > 
> > Suppose we have a card X with a closed source driver. You will not
> > use it. Now we make a new card Y, which is actually an X with the
> > functionality of the driver pushed into the (closed source) firmware.
> > We make a third card Z with the same functionality pushed inside the
> > hardware.
> > 
> > Will you use Y ?
> > Will you use Z ?
> > 
> > If the answer to either is yes, what is the essential difference ?
> 
> It's a lot more likely that Z will work very well with a newer
> kernel/system/api/whatever with changes applied to the open source
> driver. You can forget about that with product X once it gets
> discontinued.
> 
> I take Z. 
> 
> Marek

This is a very good point I forgot to mention.

I sincerely hope Nvidia drops all linux support some time in the future.
It's the only way some people will learn.

-DR-