'Commercial Partners'

sean seanlkml at sympatico.ca
Fri Mar 31 21:32:02 UTC 2006


On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:30:35 -0600
Ian Pilcher <i.pilcher at comcast.net> wrote:

> All of which would be fine and dandy if graphics hardware manufacturers
> provided the specs necessary to create Open Source drivers.  As things
> stand, we seem to be headed for the day when the type of basic desktop
> functionality we take for granted today will absolutely require the use
> of binary drivers from ATI or nVIDIA.  

Well that's the doomsday scenario, hopefully it won't come to that.

> I don't understand why people who
> claim to care about software freedom seem to working to create this
> situation.

Right now some great work is going into open source drivers for some
high end ATI hardware.  Not there yet, but coming along nicely.
As well, there is a BeOS open source driver for some pretty recent
nVidia hardware, with a chance that it will be ported over to Linux.

Plus, in the _long_ term the pace of graphcis hardware churn is
going to vastly deminish which will give open source solutions 
a more fixed target to catch up with.
 
> Is it 5:00 yet?

lol, almost.

Sean




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