You're missing the point

Posted Feb 20, 2008 6:04 UTC (Wed) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: You're missing the point by liljencrantz
Parent article: Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves?

> All in all, the driver is crappy, and because it is closed source, I have no other option
than to sit around and hope nVidia will accidentally fix this in a later release, which seems
somewhat unlikely.


Well, with hindsight, what you should of done was never purchase the hardware in the first
place. With these sort of things your not only paying for the hardware, but your paying for
the software.

That is without the drivers the hardware is useless (or nearly useless). Nvidia, by keeping
stuff closed, is using their software as part of the product you are purchasing. One is
nothing without the other.

That is because you bought Nvidia's hardware you are paying for them to continue to develop
closed source drivers. (In comparison how much have you paid to develop open source drivers?)


So the other course of action, right now, is sell your Nvidia stuff and buy something with
Intel on it. So if you have problems with their driver support yourself or somebody can
actually do something about it.

If you cannot do that because of the money. Oh well. Better luck next time.

If you cannot work with Intel hardware because of performance issues, then you'll never be
able to work with the open source nvidia drivers either. There will never be the developer
support or community support nessicary to get those drivers up to the same level of Nvidia's
own drivers in a timely fasion. So your screwed coming and going.

You're missing the point

Posted Feb 20, 2008 15:42 UTC (Wed) by liljencrantz (guest, #28458) [Link] (1 responses)

Your points are mostly valid, but Intel doesn't sell any desktop cards, and back when I bought
my hardware ATI where nowhere near open either, so I really had no option there. 

I really wanted to buy a laptop with an Intel GPU, but the exakt same laptop that I bought but
with Intel graphics cost a full $600 more than the one I bought. They where selling the laptop
I bought at almost half price because they had introduced the exact same model but with Vista
certification. Thanks, Micorsoft!!! While I strongly wanted to support Intel, $600 was simply
too much, and I caved in. I have some regrets.

You're missing the point

Posted Feb 21, 2008 2:17 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (guest, #24648) [Link]

Saving $600 is worth a few regrets.