> Why? Because with the availability of closed drivers the (market) > demand for open source drivers suddenly becomes as small as the > handful of Libre Software supporters like I am one. The "just make my > hardware work" type of Linux users is not interested in Open Source > drivers anymore, so why should someone still write this kind of > drivers? NVidia is the prime example. They provide closed source > drivers, a lot of (probably most) users are happy about this, NVidia > makes millions of dollars also in the Linux market. No free software > drivers? Bah, who the heck cares? And who the heck cares, that you > cannot buy a single modern 3D-card anymore, which has open source > drivers, by any manufacturer? Oh, that's not the fault of the linux > community, Matrox simply sucks, they don't provide binary only Gone are the beautiful days, closed already (their 650, 750 and parhelia series - binary only) Oh BTW, just in case :) http://www.petitiononline.com/atipet/petition.html > > If RME doesn't want to support Linux for their FW card, that's fine > with me. There are still enough alternatives. We're risking a case where the alternatives would soon be redundant technically or discontinued. And firewire is "der letzte schrei", almost every manufacturer has got or prepares his own firewire product. Marek
