Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

Helge Hafting
2005-12-08T08:11:19Z

Luke-Jr wrote:

>On Tuesday 06 December 2005 16:27, Simon Oosthoek wrote:
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>>Arjan van de Ven wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 18:26 +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote:
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>>>>On Monday 05 December 2005 10:52, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
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>>>>>a hypothetical doomsday scenario by Arjan van de Ven
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>>>>Can I ask what prompted your post?
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>>>I got one too many hatemails from a "nvidia fanboy" who blamed me for
>>>just about anything wrong in the world.... I fear that most of these
>>>people have no idea why open source drivers matter, or at least what the
>>>consequences are for not caring about drivers being open or not.
>>>
>>>
>>I use nvidia cards, mostly because they work better than an alternative
>>for now, but every time I need a card I look for stuff that is more
>>open, because I hate to have to use the non-free closed stuff to do
>>graphics. (Having no real choice in this is really annoying to me!)
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>The ATi Radeon 9200 works fine...
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Lucky you. Mine doesn't. Using 3D on it makes the machine unstable,
and the performance is apalling too. So I'm looking for something
else - a radeon 7000 is cheap . . .

And don't say that a crash during a 3D game isn't important - it is
a two-user machine and the other user is not amused when this happens.

Helge Hafting