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

Luke-Jr
2005-12-07T06:57:56Z

On Tuesday 06 December 2005 14:49, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Sure. But that doesn't mean there is no purchase power. HP, Dell and IBM
> and co DO have purchasing power over NVidia and ATI. If they tell ATI or
> NVidia to either go open source (unlikely) or rearchitect their drivers
> to do the "hot IP" in userspace, it will happen.

Proprietary code in userspace is not much better.

> And YOU can influence Dell and HP and IBM again. By complaining to their
> sales people. By letting them know binary modules aren't going to cut it.

Neither is binary-only userland stuff.

Moving the problem doesn't solve it.
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Luke-Jr
Developer, Utopios