14 Dec
2005
14 Dec
'05
2:34 p.m.
--- Lee Revell <rlrevell(a)joe-job.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 09:01 -0600, Josh Lawrence
wrote:
The reason you piss people off is because every
helpful reply you make has a snide condescending
remark in it somewhere. Very seldomly do you reply
without registering your intolerance and your
superiority over whomever it is that you are
supposedly helping.
Why should anyone even bother posting on this mailing
list when they will be expecting you to insult them?
ron
This discussion is very helpful to me, I was
unaware that proprietary
drivers such as ATI's would cause such
problems
with a RT kernel. It
was a video card that I had leftover from my
Windows days, and since I
don't have any $ to buy a new one, I'll
just have
to keep it for
> awhile.
> Well my point was that proprietary drivers are
wrong, period, from both
a technical and ethical standpoint - it was not
specific to the RT
kernel. It's not about whether they are buggy or
not. When Linux users
buy hardware that requires propriertary drivers you
are impeding the
progress of Linux and all free software. It would
be understandable if
there was no 3D hardware available with open drivers
but that's not the
case.
Really this is all a depressing reminder that as far
as Linux has come
over the years people are STILL buying hardware to
run Windows on it.
They would rather have a 5% better framerate in some
game than support
free software. Is the highest purpose of Linux
really just to run
proprietary games and VST plugins using Wine? If so
then I'm wasting my
time.
Lee
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