nvidia

Scott van Looy scott at ethosuk.org.uk
Tue Oct 30 14:49:18 UTC 2007


Today Les Mikesell did spake thusly:

> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
>>> Most of my closed source drivers are used with closed source OS's and
>>> are simply not an issue.
>> 
>> I assumed, since you are writing to a Fedora newsgroup/mailing list,
>> that you were talking about using closed drivers under Fedora.
>> 
>> If you are talking about Windows drivers under Windows OS
>> I don't really see the relevance.
>
> The relevance is that the Linux faithful like to regurgitate the lines about 
> how stable interfaces and binary drivers can't work when in fact they work 
> just fine and the majority of the world runs on them taking advantage of the 
> vendor's expertise and desire for a competitive advantage.  Just a reality 
> check...

They do?
Most people here are trying to explain FOSS to you...

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