On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:30:35 -0600 Ian Pilcher <i.pilcher@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > All of which would be fine and dandy if graphics hardware manufacturers > provided the specs necessary to create Open Source drivers. As things > stand, we seem to be headed for the day when the type of basic desktop > functionality we take for granted today will absolutely require the use > of binary drivers from ATI or nVIDIA. Well that's the doomsday scenario, hopefully it won't come to that. > I don't understand why people who > claim to care about software freedom seem to working to create this > situation. Right now some great work is going into open source drivers for some high end ATI hardware. Not there yet, but coming along nicely. As well, there is a BeOS open source driver for some pretty recent nVidia hardware, with a chance that it will be ported over to Linux. Plus, in the _long_ term the pace of graphcis hardware churn is going to vastly deminish which will give open source solutions a more fixed target to catch up with. > Is it 5:00 yet? lol, almost. Sean -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
