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Non-Story? Vote with your Dollars

Posted Feb 14, 2007 5:01 UTC (Wed) by thebluesgnr (guest, #37963)
In reply to: Non-Story? Vote with your Dollars by AJWM
Parent article: Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for Feisty (Linux.com)

The question you should be asking is when will AMD release a graphics cards with Free drivers that you can plug into your motherboard.

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Posted Feb 14, 2007 9:13 UTC (Wed) by lgb (guest, #784) [Link]

Well, I've chosen nvidia card into my Linux-only computer, since that's quite good supported and has enough performace at last for me. However, if there is a card with good/better support (in particular FOSS driver!) I would change immediately. Sure, there are guys think the same, however I think the market share of people wanting only FOSS drivers is quite a low percent :(

Vote with your Dollars

Posted Feb 14, 2007 20:48 UTC (Wed) by jstAusr (guest, #27224) [Link]

I look at it in the other direction, if I buy the best hardware I can get with freely licensed drivers then I am supporting the advancement of the hardware that I want. If I buy hardware with closed drivers I will be supporting the hardware that I don't want.

Intel is currently working in the right direction, I will support Intel with my next purchase.

Non-Story? Vote with your Dollars -- I did

Posted Feb 14, 2007 17:22 UTC (Wed) by AJWM (guest, #15888) [Link]

> when will AMD release a graphics cards with Free drivers that you can plug into your motherboard.

I already have one of those -- an ATI 9250 based card, free driver based on specs that ATI (now part of AMD) released.

(Granted, they haven't released any since -- hopefully that will change under the new ownership.)