[nylug-talk] Video card situation get a bit more dire

[H. G.]

You folks are forgetting that there are more than enough Windows gamers
and power users to make what we do "with our wallets" irrelevant.

I'm no fan of closed source drivers, but I do think that it'll take a little
bit more
than our little boycott to get the message accross.  They need to be
convinced
that theres a fiscal incentive in creating open source drivers.

On 11/16/06, Joseph M. Gaffney <cucullin at wtfisthat.net> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 16 November 2006 16:17, jh wrote:
> > See this:
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/yl6zj7
> >
> > AMD/ATI to release a combined CPU/GPU.
> >
> > Now it appears that Reuben's stipulation that you won't be able to get
> > to a shell prompt without a closed source module is actually coming
> > true. And what a great trojan horse to totally do a DRM lockdown.
> >
> > I hope that the community can get ahead of this one, and make AMD/ATI
> > release that this new technology is a non-starter on FOSS without truly
> > open drivers.
> >
> > My $.02.
> >
> > jh
>
> *shrug*
>
> I'd just say buy Intel, and ignore AMD.  Show them what you want with the
> wallet.
>
> -Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin
>
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