1 Dec
2004
1 Dec
'04
9:48 p.m.
The point is not that someone might reverse engineer
and do a
worse/better oss driver. The point is that nvidia, ati, xgi, matrox
*should* do open source drivers.
The point is that nobody has persuaded them of this, and in the matrox
case, they actually went backwards, from our perspective. These
companies cannot be shown to be incorrect, all we can say is that they
have a different perspective on the world than we do. Their different
perspective might make you want to boycott them, or try to change
their minds. If boycott is your thing, end of story.
Otherwise, given the apparent absence of a benign, GPL-friendly deity
who will change their minds on our behalf, the question would seem to
be can they be convinced, and if so how? Does anybody think that the
attitude that Marek and Dave R. have offered might work? I, for one,
do not. Actually, I am not actually sure that they can be convinced,
which makes it all a bit irrelevant.
--p