--- Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 09:01 -0600, Josh Lawrence
> wrote:
> > This discussion is very helpful to me, I was
> unaware that proprietary
> > drivers such as ATI's would cause such problems
> with a RT kernel. It
> > was a video card that I had leftover from my
> Windows days, and since I
> > don't have any $ to buy a new one, I'll just have
> to keep it for
> > awhile.
> >
The reason you piss people off is because every
helpful reply you make has a snide condescending
remark in it somewhere. Very seldomly do you reply
without registering your intolerance and your
superiority over whomever it is that you are
supposedly helping.
Why should anyone even bother posting on this mailing
list when they will be expecting you to insult them?
ron
> Well my point was that proprietary drivers are
> wrong, period, from both
> a technical and ethical standpoint - it was not
> specific to the RT
> kernel. It's not about whether they are buggy or
> not. When Linux users
> buy hardware that requires propriertary drivers you
> are impeding the
> progress of Linux and all free software. It would
> be understandable if
> there was no 3D hardware available with open drivers
> but that's not the
> case.
>
> Really this is all a depressing reminder that as far
> as Linux has come
> over the years people are STILL buying hardware to
> run Windows on it.
> They would rather have a 5% better framerate in some
> game than support
> free software. Is the highest purpose of Linux
> really just to run
> proprietary games and VST plugins using Wine? If so
> then I'm wasting my
> time.
>
> Lee
>
>
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