NVIDIA Drops Their Open-Source Driver, Refers Users To VESA

[squirrl]

April fools!

[synthil]

Well, I was more referring to driver blobs, but alright. Yikes, that's a lot of commercial proprietary software. All within a Linux environment? Can't see the advantage of a GNU userland with a Linux kernel supporting that weight of software, but alright. Whatever boats your float!

[deanjo]

Well, I was more referring to driver blobs, but alright. Yikes, that's a lot of commercial proprietary software. All within a Linux environment? Can't see the advantage of a GNU userland with a Linux kernel supporting that weight of software, but alright. Whatever boats your float!

I didn't even mention the apps I regularly use in wine.

[deanjo]

It's really no different then running a opensource app (or drivers) on a closed system, you use what works best for you.

[yotambien]

Purity contest:

VRMS(1)

NAME
vrms - report of installed non-free software

SYNOPSIS
vrms [OPTION] ...

DESCRIPTION
This program began as an attempt to create a "virtual Richard
M. Stallman" for Debian GNU/Linux.  Thus the choice of name.

yotambien@debian~$ vmrs
               Non-free packages installed on debian

celestia-common-nonfree   Non-free datafiles for Celestia, a real-time visual sp
firmware-ipw2x00          Binary firmware for Intel Pro Wireless 2100, 2200 and
firmware-linux            Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kerne
firmware-linux-nonfree    Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kerne
ion3                      tiling tabbed window manager designed for keyboard use
opera                     The Opera Web Browser
ozerocdoff                An improved ZeroCD switching utility
skype                     Skype
sun-java5-bin             Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 (architectu
sun-java5-jre             Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 (architectu
sun-java6-bin             Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture
sun-java6-jre             Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture
unrar                     Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version)
usb-modeswitch            mode switching tool for controlling "flip flop" USB de
virtualbox-guest-addition guest additions iso image for VirtualBox

               Contrib packages installed on debian

ion3-scripts              user-contributed add-ons to the Ion 3 window manager
mathematica-fonts         Installer of Mathematica fonts
msttcorefonts             transitional dummy package
ttf-mathematica4.1        transitional dummy package
ttf-mscorefonts-installer Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts

 15 non-free packages, 0.8% of 1769 installed packages.
  5 contrib packages, 0.3% of 1769 installed packages.

It doesn't pick up manual installations such as GoogleEarth, Acroread, an old VMware VM I've got lying around and some scientific package. All in all, I'm pretty pure. About 98.7% pure according to (virtual) Richard Stallman ; )

[synthil]

WINE? Now that is hilarious. I'd hardly say Wine works 'best' for anyone. It's a compromise, borne out of open-source adventurism, one that works well for most people, but certainly not 'best'.

[trepo]

And in perspective people that have done more then either one of them put together also come from a proprietary background, Gates and Wozniak.

In my world, the "how" and "why" are not irrelevant when judging somebodys work. I'm not denying anybodys right to personal gain; yet, somehow, I value selfless contributions higher.

[dfx.]

what a load of crap those words about "shades of grey" stripped of context at best, especially, told right after Linus himself forced nouveau developers to put their work into kernel promptly, starting all that.

probably he was really pissed about people who bug-report from "tainted kernel"

and if you want to get all juicy bits from F/OSS community and crack it with some proprietary binary on all system layers - you are not a progmatic with "effective system", you are hypocrite with personalized cracked up system clinged up by nails and shivel

[deanjo]

I value selfless contributions higher.

Maybe you should look at their foundations then and what they have done with their fortunes.

[deanjo]

what a load of crap those words about "shades of grey" stripped of context at best, especially, told right after Linus himself forced nouveau developers to put their work into kernel promptly, starting all that.

probably he was really pissed about people who bug-report from "tainted kernel"

and if you want to get all juicy bits from F/OSS community and crack it with some proprietary binary on all system layers - you are not a progmatic with "effective system", you are hypocrite with personalized cracked up system clinged up by nails and shivel

The "shades of grey" was not taken out of context at all. Linus referred to that when several kernel devs decided to try a coo and force Linus to completely blacklist any blob driver. Thankfully his more rational stand still holds.