21 Jun
2006
21 Jun
'06
9:51 a.m.
Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo,
Jonny Stutters hat gesagt: // Jonny Stutters wrote:
But nvidia DOES offer decent (non-GPL, proprietary, binary) drivers.
not that i am totally happy about that, but this is the best you can get.
sure - nv's drivers do suck in some respect, but also the ati open
source drivers do.
and even if there were open source drivers - no one* would use them, if
the closed source drivers
bring better performance.
Or would anyone of you really spent € 280 for a 7800GT and use
(imaginatory) open source drivers
instead of just get the same performance from a €180 7600GT with closed
source drivers ?
well, i say that drivers for things like webcams, soundchips and all
that stuff should be opensource.
but i have to confess that 3D gfx drivers (with decent performance) are
such a complex thing that
you can not demand them to be opensource.
*) ok, ppl that use the gfx card only for 2D and some eye candy that is
GL accelerated probably will use them.
The solution as I see it (and so this isn't a
/completely/ negative rant
;) ) is more advocacy => more users => noticable difference to the
bottom line of companies who don't supply quality (open-source where
legally possible) Linux drivers.
An important part of the solution also is to boycott vendors, who
don't provide specifications for the development of open source
drivers for their hardware.
As long as people still buy NVidia chips, why should they change their
current position?
Ciao