Re: Re: "Drivers? We don't need no stinking..."

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:14:27PM -0500, David Wexelblat wrote:
> > With the Wretched Offender's 'kdrive' as an example, perhaps 
> > it is possible to prune the code.  As for chips, maybe I
> > should replace my aging G400 and 300 MHz K6-2 with a
> > 2 GHz CPU or two, and run dumb framebuffer mode; that was
> > Intel's suggestion, several years ago.
> > 
> 
> Vote with your dollars. If you are committed to the Open Source-only path,
> the don't by hardware from vendors that don't release docs. This has worked
> in the past, rarely.

Well, but not these days anymore, what would you end buying ? Nvidia is
out, matrox was giving docs in the past, but with the new hardware
(parhelia), i think there are not so open anymore, true, who would buy a
parhelia, but still. ATI does release docs, but they don't release all
of them too, especially in the Video domain. I don't really know about
the others, but none release docs without you signing an NDA (BTW, are
all the docs you offered NDA clean ?), and anyway, often you cannot even
buy their hardware. 

Friendly,

Sven Luther