Linux driver model
Posted Aug 28, 2004 9:14 UTC (Sat) by
qubes (subscriber, #2562)
In reply to:
Linux driver model by piman
Parent article:
Linux loses the Philips webcam driver
Hardware manufatures can fsck them selves if it _requires_ a binary blob
to make it work. If that's all the manufature provides I don't buy their
hardware. I've got a Nvidia chipset, but only because there is a free
GPL'ed version in X; if there wasn't I would have spent my _cash_ on other
hardware. At the time, ATI didn't have even 2d support for thier cards;
hopefully, even marketing will be able to understand that.
Now, I just wish a well read author would write about the dangers using
un-peer reviewed source code; much like using junk science (even if junk
science is so much quicker to produce.)
Thomas
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