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    SubjectRe: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario
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    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
    http://utopios.org/
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