The fact that they are trying to do this is just a little disturbing. Maybe i'm just being paranoid, but i don't want ANYONE, much less anyone involved in our miltary, which serves as a model for narrow-mindednes and hypocrisy everywhere, playing with my biometrics the way i play with pcbs. Who do they think they are to be playing with biocircuitry?
People don't support open source necessarily because that's the only way they can afford software, and just becasuse we wish to see code free does not mean we don't understand that you can't give away hardware. It's not like after you dropped 6C in their bank accounts they're going to make you pay more just to get the drivers, if they do release Linux or other AltOS drivers they will be freely downloadable and should be open source (but unfortunately probably won't)
We all (or most of us) go into drool mode when we read about cool new hardware, but has anyone thought to find out about alt.OS support? Specifically Linux? Apple is now an OEM buyer of NVidia cards, which would lead one to believe they will have Mac OSX drivers, for the GeForce3. And since OSX is based on Unix it seems that it would not be too incredibly difficult to port the OSX drivers to Linux if NVidia is too stingy to do it for us. I hope that programmers with more knowledge than me can soon get their hands on a reference board or two, Penguin huggers should no longer be forced to suffer from cut-rate graphics because commercial companies don't want to expend the resources to port drivers to what is a growing and largely under-marketed group of knowledgable computer users
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The fact that they are trying to do this is just a little disturbing. Maybe i'm just being paranoid, but i don't want ANYONE, much less anyone involved in our miltary, which serves as a model for narrow-mindednes and hypocrisy everywhere, playing with my biometrics the way i play with pcbs. Who do they think they are to be playing with biocircuitry?
People don't support open source necessarily because that's the only way they can afford software, and just becasuse we wish to see code free does not mean we don't understand that you can't give away hardware. It's not like after you dropped 6C in their bank accounts they're going to make you pay more just to get the drivers, if they do release Linux or other AltOS drivers they will be freely downloadable and should be open source (but unfortunately probably won't)
We all (or most of us) go into drool mode when we read about cool new hardware, but has anyone thought to find out about alt.OS support? Specifically Linux? Apple is now an OEM buyer of NVidia cards, which would lead one to believe they will have Mac OSX drivers, for the GeForce3. And since OSX is based on Unix it seems that it would not be too incredibly difficult to port the OSX drivers to Linux if NVidia is too stingy to do it for us. I hope that programmers with more knowledge than me can soon get their hands on a reference board or two, Penguin huggers should no longer be forced to suffer from cut-rate graphics because commercial companies don't want to expend the resources to port drivers to what is a growing and largely under-marketed group of knowledgable computer users