Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 13:51 +0100, Marek Peteraj wrote: > > I really like the philosophy of not letting any closed source > > drivers into the kernel. In the end i only saw people upset because > > their XY nvidia or ATI driver wasn't working. > > That's a perfectly valid point. But for every disgruntled nvidia > user there are 100 who are just happy to be able to play UT2004. As > Jan said, open source is not a religion for every Linux user, and > like it or not, if you have superior hardware and good drivers there > are many Linux users who will buy your gear, open source or not. > > Lee Religion? I always thought having open source was pragmatic in a deep way. Oh, and it was there first. You wouldn't have a mail-client without it. You would sit in the dark and pray. For the sake of it I put in my 2 cents as well: RME's decision to release HDSP tech info was intelligent. Their decision to not release Fireface tech info is smart at most. Wolfgang
