Opinion: NVIDIA drivers are a BAD Thing [tm]

[Will Backman]

On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 13:36, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
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>          6. I have already complained loudly to NVIDIA about their drivers 
> being closed. I have made it clear that this *will* be major factor in 
> future purchases.
> 
>          7. In the future, we all want open-source. *NOW*, we want 
> open-source *and* we want more widespread adoption of Linux. For users who 
> are converting from Linux, being told to throw away a $100 video card 
> because its unsupported sucks and reflects badly on Linux. Being told to 
> throw away the same $100 video card which has perfectly good working 
> drivers from the manufacturer because those drivers are not open makes us 
> look like idiots. In marketing, customer perception *is* reality.
> 

Funny thing is that XFree86 changed from multiple servers to a single
monolithic server with driver modules for the purpose of supporting
binary modules (among other reasons).