[Panel-devel] ATi- Plasma- support

[Jessica Hall]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:31, danalien wrote:

> if ATI guy goes : No we won't fully F/OSS the drivers...
>
> you go : Then, thanks but no thanks - hade a nice chat. But the bottom line
> is, there are other gfx-cardmanufacturors out there that allready do
> support us with such things as F/OSS drivers, and by the looks from your
> comment  - we're going to spend our time supporting them for supporting us
> with F/OSS drivers.
>
>
> /* if ATI guy asks who - say name XGI and Via - and that both produce
> hardware that's more then adequate for what are going to do ... F/OSS
> drivers are more important for us in the long-line then
> Blazzing-speed-we-won't-ever-be-able-to-fully-utilize-with-"crippled"-binar
>y-only-drivers! */

Forgive my ignorance, but what is actually wrong with binary drivers? 
Obviously open sourced drivers would be preferable, but the binary drivers I 
use with my graphics card are excellent. I certainly wouldn't refer to them 
as 'crippled'.  I get the same performance gaming under linux as I would 
under windows, and I'm pretty pleased with that. 

People who don't open source their software are not evil and don't need to be 
browbeaten. This attitude gets tiresome.

Regards,
-- 
JH

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