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Free alternativesFree alternativesPosted Sep 2, 2006 10:53 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)In reply to: Free alternatives by emkey Parent article: Fedora Core to drop openmotif
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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