[utah-glx-users] Re: OT/ Re: nvidia documents

[Nicholas V. <vi...@pa...>]

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From: Bernd Kreimeier <bk...@lo...>
To: Nicholas Vining <vi...@pa...>
Cc: uta...@li...
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Date: Saturday, February 26, 2000 4:04 PM
Subject: [utah-glx-users] [utah-glx-dev] OT/ Re: nvidia documents


>Nicholas Vining writes:
> > contribute. However, when it came time to buy 3D hardware, I wanted
> > something that I could just stick into my computer and wail away on
> > The case of Nvidia cards is totally different. Many more of us DO
> > have TNTs or GeForces.
>
>This is a bit off topic for glx-dev, but maybe be worth
>continuing on glx-users.


Agreed, thank you for swapping it out.

>Nvidia can hardly be blamed for premature purchase decisions
>by Linux users. Maybe it would have been better if they had
>not released any "developer" drivers at all, but then, some
>driver is better than no driver at all. Iff you stick to
>a WYSIWG consumer attitude.


I think we're educated enough to know that WYSINWYWGE (What You See Is Not
What You Will Get Eventually).. at least I hope I am. I don't know if your
message is intended to be sarcastic. I just needed something I could work
with now. Besides which, I was able to get my Voodoo for $20 which was
really one of the major clinchers. :-)

>I am not saying that I agree with Nvidia's decision. I am
>saying that their decisions are shaped by your purchase
>decisions. If somebody goes ahead and buys hardware in the
>expectation that sufficient Linux support will eventually
>and automatically materialize, then that's their personal
>gamble, and so is the risk.


I don't know if that's true, simply because they have no way of knowing
whether or not I am buying their cards as a Windows user or as an expectant
Linux user. Hopefully after Xfree86 4.0 comes out and DRI use becomes wide
spread we will see a closed source driver. Either way, open or closed, it'll
be a good thing, even if it does make us open source advocates a little
antsy.

Nicholas
--
Nicholas Vining         "While you're out there struggling
vi...@pa...  with your computer, I'm naked,
icq: 20872003            clueless, and feeling good!"
                                         - Ratbert