New Linux look fuels old debate (ZDnet)

New Linux look fuels old debate (ZDnet)

Posted Apr 18, 2006 16:11 UTC (Tue) by philips (guest, #937)
In reply to: New Linux look fuels old debate (ZDnet) by kirkengaard
Parent article: New Linux look fuels old debate (ZDNet)

The nVidia guy is from PR. He seems to know only how to sell. It's his job to tell how complicated everything is - so he can try to charge more for it.

As system programmer/driver developer, I have to fight such attitude more or less on daily basis. The only "complicated" thing - is to accept. There is no "complicated technology" - there is only "rigid mind", refusing to accept something new.

As driver developer, I have only one thing to say. Developing complicated drivers is ...FUN! =) Seriously. The most of the drivers degraded this days anyway and used solely to tunnel the jobs flying between CPU and HW over a bus. The tunneling could be tricky - but that's okay. CPU part could be also tricky. HW part is tricky sometimes too. Anything can be tricky. But that's okay. This is why that called a 'job'.

P.S. Thou honestly, I'd rather leave nVidia alone handling LONG list of errata for their boards. You can't expect such complicated device be clean. From my rather short experience, such pieces of hardware can have errata lists running into hundreds items. And handling all erratas would be one hell of a job.

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