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SubjectRe: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario
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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