I have an i810 and am running ubuntu, and 3D acceleration is buggy at best, broken at worst. Obviously, the hackers had a hard time reverse-engineering it. Now Windows, despite having closed-source binary drivers handles 3D fine. Therefore, I draw the following conclusions from this:
proprietary drivers work.
reverse engineered drivers don't work as well.
furthermore, intel is extremely unlikely to ever release their specs (despite any amount of whining), so I am simply stuck with it.
now, server owners are going to be concerned about the security of a closed, binary driver but note:
SERVER OWNERS DON'T NEED 3D acceleration, or wireless, or any of that stuff.
Your argument, as I see it, is that artists, actors, etc. will continue to make movies and whatnot because they like to. This is correct. However, the quality of their works is certain to be less because they are not getting paid for it. For instance, movies cost a huge amount of money to make. You need cameras, sets, special effects, etc. If that money isn't there, those movies are going to look like something someone filmed in their backyard. There is simply no way for them to get funding, short of donations and packaging. And with movies, unlike software, you can't even argue that you are going to make them pay for documentation or support. In short, your proposal is communist/wishful thinking.
However, I do think that the world would be a better place if all the publishers did like the snark and quietly vanished away.
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Of course your hardware isn't flawed. The idiots at Ubuntu accidentally built your distro for the wrong architecture!
I have an i810 and am running ubuntu, and 3D acceleration is buggy at best, broken at worst. Obviously, the hackers had a hard time reverse-engineering it. Now Windows, despite having closed-source binary drivers handles 3D fine. Therefore, I draw the following conclusions from this: proprietary drivers work. reverse engineered drivers don't work as well. furthermore, intel is extremely unlikely to ever release their specs (despite any amount of whining), so I am simply stuck with it. now, server owners are going to be concerned about the security of a closed, binary driver but note: SERVER OWNERS DON'T NEED 3D acceleration, or wireless, or any of that stuff.
keep in mind that very few people outside of slashdot even know what linux is. and logic has nothing to do with it.
Out, out, brief candle!
Your argument, as I see it, is that artists, actors, etc. will continue to make movies and whatnot because they like to. This is correct. However, the quality of their works is certain to be less because they are not getting paid for it. For instance, movies cost a huge amount of money to make. You need cameras, sets, special effects, etc. If that money isn't there, those movies are going to look like something someone filmed in their backyard. There is simply no way for them to get funding, short of donations and packaging. And with movies, unlike software, you can't even argue that you are going to make them pay for documentation or support. In short, your proposal is communist/wishful thinking. However, I do think that the world would be a better place if all the publishers did like the snark and quietly vanished away.