User: airlied

Re:Software freedom trumps proprietorship every ti

On: Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Goes Stable On Linux

There are lots of other type of users. People designing embedded systems, people maintaining long term projects etc.

The thing we probably don't care about you, since you will just go install the binary driver from nvidia site. Most users probably just want their desktop/laptop to work out of the box.

Re:incredibly bad move

On: Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Goes Stable On Linux

at least from a corporate point of view, you get what your IT dept buy.

Re:propreitary

On: Coming Soon: An Open-Source, Reverse-Engineered Mali GPU Driver

You haven't looked at 3D programming in 15 years then?

Its just like a CPU, you build shader programs, and optimsing the shader programs requires compilers and writing good compilers is hard and costs lots of money.

Also the other reason is patent infringement, they are all infringing on everyone, just like the rest of the mobile space, so they don't want to make it that easy to show off what they are doing.

Though neither of these reasons are really valid but lawyers and crap engineers like to keep themselves looking good.

Re:Should be fine...

On: Where Do I Go Now That Oracle Owns OpenOffice.org?

if you weren't slow, you'd have done some research, and worked out the taint name is used for a lot of things and predates the binary drivers.

But I suppose being an idiot isn't your fault, probably genetic.

Re:Major version release?

On: New, Modularized X Window Release Now Available for Download

6.9 was released as a transition, same source different build systems, so you vendors can slowly transisition....