Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:26:09 +0500 | From | "Alexander E. Patrakov" <> | Subject | [OT] Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario |
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Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 18:26 +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote: > >>On Monday 05 December 2005 10:52, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> >>>a hypothetical doomsday scenario by Arjan van de Ven >>> >> >>Can I ask what prompted your post? > > > I got one too many hatemails from a "nvidia fanboy" who blamed me for > just about anything wrong in the world.... I fear that most of these > people have no idea why open source drivers matter, or at least what the > consequences are for not caring about drivers being open or not.
I guess that such people also use drivers without Microsoft's digital signature in Windows and don't understand where their bluescreens come from. So talking to them is a wasted effort.
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