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Yes. Now nvidia sucks even more.

Yes. Now nvidia sucks even more.

Posted Nov 28, 2008 14:55 UTC (Fri) by jch (guest, #51929)
In reply to: Yes. Now nvidia sucks even more. by iabervon
Parent article: VIA releases chipset documentation

> If only they were willing to freeze their firmware in immutable silicon on their products, we'd be satisfied! Or, rather, we wouldn't know there was more to ask for.

Who ever said that?

The original IBM PC's BIOS was frozen in silicon. That didn't prevent smart people from reverse-engineering it and other smart people from providing improved replacements.


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Yes. Now nvidia sucks even more.

Posted Nov 28, 2008 16:54 UTC (Fri) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

many people (including RMS) have said that they have no problem with sourceless firmware if it's in ROM, they only have a problem with sourceless firmware if it's in flash or loaded by the driver.


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