What I recently did regarding software freedom.

[Joel Jaeggli]

http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/dri_driver_features.phtml

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:

> Don Levey wrote:
> > 1) Which card would this be?
> 
> ATI Radeon 9000 AGP in this case.
> 
> > 2) How does this help the person who already has the NVIDIA card, apart from
> > getting them to spend another $60?
> 
> It shows them that they have to be careful about buying hardware to work
> with XFree86.  $50 or $60 is not a big deal in computers but losing software
> freedom is.  I can't convey the value of software freedom by telling people
> to adopt non-free software.  A more easily used database of hardware (and a
> simple database lookup program to run on Microsoft Windows and various free
> software OSes) would help people not fall into the trap of obtaining
> hardware they can't use on a particular free software system.
> 
> What you're doing is purposefully constructing a narrow situation and
> rejecting any response that doesn't match your response.  You do this to
> make people believe that your way is the only way to play these 3D games.  I
> refuse to work within those silly boundaries.  I demonstrated that for a
> rather low fee one can purchase a great deal of functionality without giving
> up software freedom.
> 
> 
> 

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