Messages in this thread | | | From | Luke-Jr <> | Subject | Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario | Date | Wed, 7 Dec 2005 07:02:37 +0000 |
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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. -- Luke-Jr Developer, Utopios http://utopios.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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