Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:13:56 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario |
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Brian Gerst wrote: > Once again I'd like to point out that user's purchase power means jack > when they only have two choices for video: ATI and Nvidia. You can't > walk into a computer store and find anything else (I don't count > integrated video on the motherboard as a solution, since only Intel > boards have it, sorry AMD users). Even over the web it's hard to find > anything else. I'm not trying to defend closed source here, but you > people just have to face the reality that trying to use the market to > get our way is just not going to work with video. The only way forward > is reverse engineering. We aren't going to get help from the vendors so > we have to help ourselves.
It sure looks that way.
Let's hope the rev-eng people do it the right way, by having one team write a document, and a totally separate team write the driver from that document.
Jeff
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