You are so full of shit, marijuana does NOT cause brain damage. People like you cause brain damage by spreading this propaganda. Also you compare alchohol and tobacoo are much more dangerous drugs than marijuana so I don't see your point.
You must be crazy, I've been so baked out of my mind it wasn't even funny and still was able to drive just fine. It sure is a hell of a lot easier than driving drunk or something.
Everyone is sick of your constant bullshit, you are just a leech, as with the rest of OSI riding on the popularity that of free software. It was going to happen whether you proclaimed yourself leader of the "opensource movement" or not, the only think you are helping in is making people think half-assed licenses that dont benefit the community are good.
Go away, we'ld be much better without your unfounded egotistical rants.
the TNT doesnt have any sort of triangle setup engine, if they did, they probably wouldnt release the specs on it. the also didnt release specs to anything, only code, which isn't exactly easy to debug if you find an error..
With matrox, we will have a fully open-source driver with nearly fully available specs, minus the WARP.
Of course... management has said there is no chance of ever getting WARP specs, although we are working on a scheme to support this in an open-source driver by treating the microcode as a chunk of data that is loaded into the card when the driver is loaded and not actual code.
Huh? the 3d part is most definately open-source. Where do you get your information?
Nvidia didnt give out specs though, so it's pretty hard to improve on the driver... they are looking into giving developers access to the docs though.
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Lately Carmack has been helping out a lot on the G200 GLX project, he has also donated $10,000 to Mesa, both of which are open-source. Where is the problem?
Well, dont worry just yet. Im sure this move by nvidia will really press matrox to release the rest of the specs we need for proper G200 support. Hell, even one of the windows icd developers said if we get the info we need we will outperform the windows opengl driver... and specs will be released for the g400 also.
What the hell do you think makes it so flexible and stable? It's not cause linux somehow attracts the best coders, it's because the code people write for it is OPEN SOURCE, it makes all the difference.
Lets see you try to optimize glide sometime... oh wait, you cant.
This is just FUD made up by corporations to have an excuse for not releasing specs. SCSI controllers are complex, would you accept a proprietary driver for that? Reverse engineering a 3d card with full specs would take longer than it is worth, by the time they figure it out it would already be obsolete. I think the problem is the flood of anything-but-microsoft people coming to linux who dont really care if its opensource or not, they just want to play quake. You should not lose sight of the fact that opensource is what sets linux apart, 3d drivers are no exception.
And we will be getting WARP support eventually, I think they are just waiting to see how well we do with what we have now...
Yeah, and how long has the 3dfx drivers for linux been in development? 2 years maybe? The g200 drivers have been in development for about 3 months now, and we dont even have direct rendering OR DMA implemented yet, both of which will be done with Precision Insight gets their driver infrastructure finished.
I cannot believe that people are actually defending proprietary drivers here, wouldn't carmack be pimping glide if thought it was that great? well, he isn't... opensource is the way..
> I actually enjoy installing a distribution and having all of the software I installed actually work reliably, a feature which the other distributions, especially Debian, severely lacks.
Uhh, you are insane? Debian has far far superior packages than any other distro out there, the others only wish they could be half as good.
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StarOffice can still kiss my ass, their community license is NOT open-source compliant.
You are so full of shit, marijuana does NOT cause brain damage. People like you cause brain damage by spreading this propaganda. Also you compare alchohol and tobacoo are much more dangerous drugs than marijuana so I don't see your point.
You are an idiot. Just because YOU cant drive stoned doesnt mean other people cant.
You dont need statistics, look around you.
You must be crazy, I've been so baked out of my mind it wasn't even funny and still was able to drive just fine. It sure is a hell of a lot easier than driving drunk or something.
Everyone is sick of your constant bullshit, you are just a leech, as with the rest of OSI riding on the popularity that of free software. It was going to happen whether you proclaimed yourself leader of the "opensource movement" or not, the only think you are helping in is making people think half-assed licenses that dont benefit the community are good.
Go away, we'ld be much better without your unfounded egotistical rants.
DO you think they would post any of the intelligent comebacks? no, they post only the ones that make people look stupid.
You dont know that, they could have written it in a hex editor.
All decryption is done in hardware that I know if. we should see an open-source driver for it sometime.
I wish I knew.... it's hard to think like a corporation.
We amazed everyone with the speed at which we developed the G200 drivers, if we had WARP just imagine what we could do.
BeOS is the as bad as windows NT. It's proprietary, therefore doomed for failure.
the TNT doesnt have any sort of triangle setup engine, if they did, they probably wouldnt release the specs on it. the also didnt release specs to anything, only code, which isn't exactly easy to debug if you find an error..
With matrox, we will have a fully open-source driver with nearly fully available specs, minus the WARP.
Of course... management has said there is no chance of ever getting WARP specs, although we are working on a scheme to support this in an open-source driver by treating the microcode as a chunk of data that is loaded into the card when the driver is loaded and not actual code.
Huh? the 3d part is most definately open-source. Where do you get your information?
Nvidia didnt give out specs though, so it's pretty hard to improve on the driver... they are looking into giving developers access to the docs though.
Lately Carmack has been helping out a lot on the G200 GLX project, he has also donated $10,000 to Mesa, both of which are open-source. Where is the problem?
Yeah i know im an asshole, if people werent so stupid I wouldnt have to be though.
Well, dont worry just yet. Im sure this move by nvidia will really press matrox to release the rest of the specs we need for proper G200 support. Hell, even one of the windows icd developers said if we get the info we need we will outperform the windows opengl driver... and specs will be released for the g400 also.
http://www.on.openprojects.net/glx
What the hell do you think makes it so flexible and stable? It's not cause linux somehow attracts the best coders, it's because the code people write for it is OPEN SOURCE, it makes all the difference.
Lets see you try to optimize glide sometime... oh wait, you cant.
This is just FUD made up by corporations to have an excuse for not releasing specs. SCSI controllers are complex, would you accept a proprietary driver for that? Reverse engineering a 3d card with full specs would take longer than it is worth, by the time they figure it out it would already be obsolete. I think the problem is the flood of anything-but-microsoft people coming to linux who dont really care if its opensource or not, they just want to play quake. You should not lose sight of the fact that opensource is what sets linux apart, 3d drivers are no exception.
And we will be getting WARP support eventually, I think they are just waiting to see how well we do with what we have now...
Yeah, and how long has the 3dfx drivers for linux been in development? 2 years maybe? The g200 drivers have been in development for about 3 months now, and we dont even have direct rendering OR DMA implemented yet, both of which will be done with Precision Insight gets their driver infrastructure finished.
I cannot believe that people are actually defending proprietary drivers here, wouldn't carmack be pimping glide if thought it was that great? well, he isn't... opensource is the way..
Yup, that is the G200 project I started that he is pimping. ;)
http://www.on.openprojects.net/glx
Yeah! lets waste all the bandwidth we can!
Uhh, try to go an order a debian cd set, you wont find any non-free software on it.
> I actually enjoy installing a distribution and having all of the software I installed actually work reliably, a feature which the other distributions, especially Debian, severely lacks.
Uhh, you are insane? Debian has far far superior packages than any other distro out there, the others only wish they could be half as good.