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Free alternativesFree alternativesPosted Sep 2, 2006 6:45 UTC (Sat) by emkey (guest, #144)In reply to: Free alternatives by man_ls Parent article: Fedora Core to drop openmotif
Free drivers will always lag. And if past experience is any indicator they will lag significantly. Reverse engineering takes time and is seldom perfect. Throw in the fact that there are provisions in the digital millenium copyright act that make reverse engineering illegal and the picture gets even more grim if the scenario you outline were to happen.
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Free alternatives Posted Sep 2, 2006 10:53 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Free drivers will always lag. And if past experience is any indicator they will lag significantly.The majority of drivers on my Linux system are at least as good as their proprietary counterparts. I don't see them lagging in any significant way. Only graphics drivers, and only for 3D, and only for modern cards without specs, and only from ATI and nVidia, lag. This is a transient status: past experience seems to indicate that free drivers will eventually get there (as they have for Wi-Fi cards) and then surpass proprietary equivalents. We are already there for Intel, and with the recent acquisition of ATI it might change faster than we think. [...] there are provisions in the digital millenium copyright act [...]Those provisions are only for copyright protection measures, do not fear.
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