Re: Pull off AIGLX repoistory?

[alan <alan clueserver org>]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Peter Gordon wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:18:59 +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn 
> <d jacobfeuerborn conversis de> wrote:
> > So basically you say that since you cannot attack the vendors directly
> > you choose to do so by proxy by...kicking your own users in the balls?
> > While I'm not exactly a friend of these vendors myself I consider this
> > behaviour not quite ethical.

> Is it not also inethical to *not* do this, thereby indirectly promoting
> or encouraging the use of proprietary drivers? ;)

What non-proprietary driver works well for 7.1 and alglx?

It seems that the only way to get the speed needed for all the gee-whizzy 
features is to run a proprietary card with proprietary drivers.  (Except 
they don't support it yet, so you can't.)

Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

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