On Tuesday, 2. October 2012. 20.56.34 Roberto Ragusa wrote: > On 10/02/2012 03:45 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > > Another factor is that the drivers may contain a lot of clever stuff. A > > long time back one of the problems raised was that vendor A had the > > better hardware but vendor B the better drivers. Vendor B's product won > > all the benchmarks. If they open sourced it then vendor A would duly have > > borrowed all the software tricks and then won hands down. > > So final users would have had the best hardware running the best drivers > (open source too). > This is something which must not be permitted to happen. :-/ That is one of the features of civilization based on capitalism --- the target is to gain most money, and to make life miserable for the competition. The actual needs of the end-users are completely irrelevant, as long as your product sells more than the competitor's product. ;-) Best, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
