On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 14:38:43 +0930, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 08:18 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote: > > I do recognize there are plenty of open source people out there > > working to offer alternative choices, and I support them too. I made a > > choice to use Fedora outside of my work place. But in making that > > choice I also decided to be practical and understand there are times > > when I may have to use non-free solutions. > > One wonders if these same zealots stick to their guns about not buying > closed stuff when they buy their motherboards... There's more than just > NVidia that's a magic black box in the computer. I plan on taking coreboot support into consideration the next time I need to buy a motherboard. The last time I bought a motherboard for myself (at work I had a limited choice of Dell machines of which the model picked was heavily influenced by being able to have an ATI graphics card) was around 2003 and at that time I wasn't aware of the coreboot (then known as linuxbios) project. However as I have recently scrounged a couple of more about 6 year old machines, I won't be buying a new motherboard soon unless an existing one goes belly up. I also care about other hardware I buy. When I bought a DVD player, I made sure it was one where I would be able to freely change the region code (even though I just watch region 1 stuff). At some point I'll probably build a mythtv based DVR / DVD player to avoid all of the other DVDCCA required crap. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
