[svlug] Nvidia Drivers for RH 9.0

[Don Marti]

begin Marc MERLIN quotation of Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 03:54:50PM -0700:

> Face it, for some hardware, it is very undesirable to show full driver
> source, and graphics cards definitely belong to that list.

I think Marc and I basically agree on this.

It's in Nvidia's interest not to publish driver source, and it's
in the users' interest for the distributions and other developers
to have it.

Imagine if you had to sign up at a vendor's site to get the drivers
for every part in your system.  What a pain!

> I'm all about open source, but if the driver is properly written, works, and
> is not something that I would be able to fix anyway, I don't really care.

It is in users' interest, long-term, to prefer hardware with free
drivers to hardware with proprietary drivers, even stable ones.
Choosing to run a proprietary driver is a regrettable, shortsighted
decision, although it's one that some people feel they have to make.

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