30 Nov
2004
30 Nov
'04
8:39 p.m.
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 00:09, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 05:32:30PM -0500, Dave
Robillard wrote:
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 provided there are specs available.
You can forget about that with product X once it gets discontinued.
I take Z.
Marek
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 ?