On 2012/10/03 01:13, J.Witvliet@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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From: users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of jdow
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Subject: Re: Why graphics drivers are proprietary
On 2012/10/02 13:17, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
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. ;-)
Without the capitalism the customer can expect zero improvement,
particularly with hardware. What incentive would I as a person trying to
make a living off clever video drivers to continue doing so?
What has capitalism to do with that?
It is about freedom of choice.
If you think you can build something better or cheaper, you must have the freedom to do so.
Otoh, if a state-owned-company has "a Plan" to produce the next five years or so, crap at bargain process, so be it.
Just as any customer has the freedom to choose any product.
And let the customer decide what is important to him: price, feature, quality, stability, support...
Hw
Hw, if there is no incentive to do something, why bother to do it? That
dirty rotten awful stinky evil capitalism provides the incentive. If I
don't get something additional out of working hard, I don't work hard -
indeed, why should I bother to work at all?
{^_^}
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