Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

[Jeff Garzik]

Brian Gerst wrote:
> Once again I'd like to point out that user's purchase power means jack 
> when they only have two choices for video:  ATI and Nvidia.  You can't 
> walk into a computer store and find anything else (I don't count 
> integrated video on the motherboard as a solution, since only Intel 
> boards have it, sorry AMD users).  Even over the web it's hard to find 
> anything else.  I'm not trying to defend closed source here, but you 
> people just have to face the reality that trying to use the market to 
> get our way is just not going to work with video.  The only way forward 
> is reverse engineering.  We aren't going to get help from the vendors so 
> we have to help ourselves.

It sure looks that way.

Let's hope the rev-eng people do it the right way, by having one team 
write a document, and a totally separate team write the driver from that 
document.

	Jeff


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