Re: Announce: ndiswrapper

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 00:29:01 EST


On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 03:49:05PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> I'm all for open specs, but in reality that doesn't always happen.
> (out of interest, are there any OS 3d drivers for any current cards?)
> I know what you mean, but I would find nvidia more at fault for not
> providing power management than no OS drivers.

The rationales for closed specs are bogus, so I have zero sympathy.
It's generally a braindead encoding for commands to carry out well-
understood operations. There is nothing to hide, except, of course,
the ability to use the hardware.


-- wli
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