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Posted Sep 13, 2009 18:49 UTC (Sun) by drag (guest, #31333)In reply to: Contributions by man_ls
Parent article: Microsoft launches open source foundation (Linux-Watch)
> Fine, drivers were not the best example in the world; after all there are lots of proprietary drivers for Linux and there is little we can do about it except complain.
Well actually... Name off all these proprietary drivers?
The only one that people can't seem to do without, right now, would be Nvidia's proprietary drivers. That and some GSM stuff for mobile phones.
Otherwise it's pretty damn easy to do avoid proprietary drivers altogether and yet find inexpensive and high performing hardware for everything you'd want to do.
The main reason why people run proprietary drivers today, other then to get away from Linux/X.org poorly performing, overly complex, and archaic driver models, is because they did not pay enough attention when buying their hardware.