Yeah, I'm sure the kernel folks are really pleased about being bothered with 'bugs' that are actually the fault of proprietary drivers doing god knows what in kernel space.
I'll be the 'zealot' to point out I don't consider proprietary drivers a "success for the linux community" at all. Quite the opposite in fact, I consider it a failure.
Proprietary software is one (debatable, opinionated) thing; take it or leave it. Proprietary drivers and closed hardware is another. I can't even conceive an argument in their favour.
A guy at dell knocked off shipping because I called and complained about the Microsoft Tax. So that's not so bad. I was fortunate enough to get a nice service rep though. Good luck.;)
And here I had ATI to point out as the "good guy" as opposed to nVidia ("The Microsoft of Video Card Manufacturers(TM)).
(deserved) Flames aside, I guess ATI still releases specs (right?) so it's not so bad. The specs are still there, and that's the real problemn (lack of specs in hardware).
Problem is with proprietary drivers available, incentive to develop free alternatives will drop significantly, because too many people just don't care.
If you want a small graphical system, just run a window manager. All of the extra (unneeded) crap that comes with a "desktop" is always going to be larger. Always. There's more there, therefore larger. So don't argue.:)
... is that they took out the -gui cmd line option, which is really annoying, at least to me. Yeah, you can put it in the config file, but sometimes I'm poking around in a shell and I just want to play a video, but other times I wan't to fire up the gui and do the graphical movie player thing. I don't want to have to edit a config file every time.
I suppose I should get un-lazy and write the ridiculously simple script to do so, but whatever. The option should still be there.;)
But commercial != proprietary. It doesn't look good to the 'business community' if we're always discussing problems with commercial software, when the actual problem doesn't have anything to do with the fact that it's commercial.
Take digital cameras as an example. Yah, it's sure be neato to have to driver on the camera to avoid having to find it! Or, like mine (and alot of cameras nowadays) the camera can just adhere to a standard (ie USB Mass Storage Device) and Just Work(TM). Which is better?
Sure, this doesn't work for some things, but it applies to most external-type things that putting a flash driver into makes sense anyway.
I agree that having monopolies dominate the news is a bad thing, but I don't think it should diminish Canada's ranking for freedom of the press.
If there's a well established news monopoly in CountryX, yet I can personally start a publication and post ANYTHING I want, wouldn't that mean CountryX should have a good ranking for freedom of the press? They aren't restricting 'the press' in anyway. Lack of restriction = freedom.
Speaking of which, is there a (Free) linux prog to browse a given Windows 'Workgroup' (right name?) and show what machines are sharing on it? In other words, something to do what opening up Network Neighborhood does on Windows. Text mode or graphical, doesn't matter to me.
Source/link for your claim that Nvidia releases code to their drivers?
I was under the impression it's common knowledge that Nvidia doesn't release specs or drivers. (Which, to answer your question, is why "NVIDIA sucks").
And yes, I do care. If you don't, fine - buy your black box of a video card. But spare me the rant.
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Yeah. They should be praised for not releasing specs for their cards. Oh thank you, Nvidia, for this sweet black box of a video card that likely won't work on my system in 2 years. *cough*
Yes, but id owns the copyright to their engines, so they can do whatever they want with them. GPL-compliant or not. LucasArts does not own the copyright to ScummVM, so they would be bound by the terms of the GPL.
But, you are right, they could distribute it, just pointing out a serious flaw in your analogy.:)
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I did exactly the same thing, worked just fine.
Can't tell you anything about the Windows config stuff though. I used linux-wlan.
You can use my code if I can use yours. Doesn't get much more fair than that.
It is indeed unfortunate that you refuse to share.
Sweet, now I can freely download music without fear of any legal repercussion.
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Have fun getting sued by the RIAA, Americans.
I took computer science to get away from "office politics" bullshit, not to be forced to take a class about it.
The LGPL is the GPL, with an exception that allows proprietary software to link with the LGPLed software.
Learn what you're talking about before you speak/troll.
Uh, the old evas did exactly that.
What even happened to the tar -y option anyway?
bzcat foo.bz2 | tar -xvf is a pain in the ass, when I've gotten used to tar -zxvf (and tar -yxvf) for years now.
Film at 11.
Yeah, I'm sure the kernel folks are really pleased about being bothered with 'bugs' that are actually the fault of proprietary drivers doing god knows what in kernel space.
I'll be the 'zealot' to point out I don't consider proprietary drivers a "success for the linux community" at all. Quite the opposite in fact, I consider it a failure.
Proprietary software is one (debatable, opinionated) thing; take it or leave it. Proprietary drivers and closed hardware is another. I can't even conceive an argument in their favour.
A guy at dell knocked off shipping because I called and complained about the Microsoft Tax. So that's not so bad. I was fortunate enough to get a nice service rep though. Good luck. ;)
And here I had ATI to point out as the "good guy" as opposed to nVidia ("The Microsoft of Video Card Manufacturers(TM)).
(deserved) Flames aside, I guess ATI still releases specs (right?) so it's not so bad. The specs are still there, and that's the real problemn (lack of specs in hardware).
Problem is with proprietary drivers available, incentive to develop free alternatives will drop significantly, because too many people just don't care.
... Are mutually exclusive.
If you want a small graphical system, just run a window manager. All of the extra (unneeded) crap that comes with a "desktop" is always going to be larger. Always. There's more there, therefore larger. So don't argue. :)
Ah. Well, clever me. :)
Thanks.
Even if your product did make inroads, some good person would clone it as an 'Open Source' project, and your proprietary product would die.
This is a Good Thing(TM), despite you and your company's desire to line your wallets at the expense of your users.
In other words, do us all a favour and keep your proprietary garbage from polluting our nice free operating system, thanks.
... is that they took out the -gui cmd line option, which is really annoying, at least to me. Yeah, you can put it in the config file, but sometimes I'm poking around in a shell and I just want to play a video, but other times I wan't to fire up the gui and do the graphical movie player thing. I don't want to have to edit a config file every time.
I suppose I should get un-lazy and write the ridiculously simple script to do so, but whatever. The option should still be there. ;)
But commercial != proprietary. It doesn't look good to the 'business community' if we're always discussing problems with commercial software, when the actual problem doesn't have anything to do with the fact that it's commercial.
Standards, not drivers.
Take digital cameras as an example. Yah, it's sure be neato to have to driver on the camera to avoid having to find it! Or, like mine (and alot of cameras nowadays) the camera can just adhere to a standard (ie USB Mass Storage Device) and Just Work(TM). Which is better?
Sure, this doesn't work for some things, but it applies to most external-type things that putting a flash driver into makes sense anyway.
It's all about the Megaman. :)
I agree that having monopolies dominate the news is a bad thing, but I don't think it should diminish Canada's ranking for freedom of the press.
If there's a well established news monopoly in CountryX, yet I can personally start a publication and post ANYTHING I want, wouldn't that mean CountryX should have a good ranking for freedom of the press? They aren't restricting 'the press' in anyway. Lack of restriction = freedom.
Speaking of which, is there a (Free) linux prog to browse a given Windows 'Workgroup' (right name?) and show what machines are sharing on it? In other words, something to do what opening up Network Neighborhood does on Windows. Text mode or graphical, doesn't matter to me.
Source/link for your claim that Nvidia releases code to their drivers?
I was under the impression it's common knowledge that Nvidia doesn't release specs or drivers. (Which, to answer your question, is why "NVIDIA sucks").
And yes, I do care. If you don't, fine - buy your black box of a video card. But spare me the rant.
Yeah. They should be praised for not releasing specs for their cards. Oh thank you, Nvidia, for this sweet black box of a video card that likely won't work on my system in 2 years. *cough*
Yes, but id owns the copyright to their engines, so they can do whatever they want with them. GPL-compliant or not. LucasArts does not own the copyright to ScummVM, so they would be bound by the terms of the GPL.
But, you are right, they could distribute it, just pointing out a serious flaw in your analogy. :)