On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 13:05, dalen wrote:
Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 19:28 -0500, dalen wrote:
>
>>When Rui suggests something constructive such as a method to play
>>TuxRacer without proprietary drivers, I may consider listening. Until
>>then, rui_zealotry.pl is simply troll noise on this list.
>
>
> I did suggest something constructive:
>
> a) To use your power as a costumer to create demand for Free Software
> drivers.
How do I do that?
> b) change your graphics card
>
> Using the proprietary driver, which even artificially restricts the way
> you use your graphics card with MACROVISION, you will never have Free
> Software drivers, and you will be under the control imposed by NVIDIA.
>
> You're calling me a zealot, but in fact the zealot is you. You are the
> one who's blindly idolatring a company that wants to control what you do
> with your computer.
How is Nvidia controlling what I do with my computer?
Don't compare Microsoft position with nVidia position, please. nVidia
could be gone in a matter of months if they sleep for too long on their
success. Let say they f*** up big time one generation of GPU and most
sells will swing into ATI camp (or any other contenders to the top
spots).
If nVidia were to do something silly I could swap the card in a matter
of minutes.
I'm using open formats for my documents.
I setup my computers in such a way that as long as I have my data backed
up on a CD-R or DVD-R I'm safe.
Neither nVidia nor Microsoft controls what I do with my computers.
The key word is "dependence".
> Rui
>
What would be your choice for suggestion b?
I would also be interested by an answer to b)
--
Frederic Soulier <frederic(a)wallaby.uklinux.net>