Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Small PCI core patch | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:44:27 +1100 |
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On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 22:23 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 11/21/05, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > > which is obviously impossible) etc... They really doesn't give a shit > > about what we think, and will continue to do so until they get a bit fat > > lawsuit, that is my opinion at least. > > In the US you can't sue to force their hardware open until they are a > proven monopoly. And as long as we have both Nvidia and ATI splitting > the market we won't get a monopoly.
No but you can sue for GPL breakage if their blob is considered as a derivative work or that sort of thing.
> So the choices are: > > 1) Live in 1998. What happens in five years R200's are no longer > available, fallback to VGA? > > 2) Temporarily accept the ugly drivers. Let desktop development > continue. Work hard on getting the vendors to see the light and go > open source.
Won't happen without some incentive. Besides, I can't accept the ugly driver for the very simple reason that they only exist for x86 and I have no such thing ...
Your other points are totally irrelevant.
Ben.
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