From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Gqp09-0000o8-Fi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 03 Dec 2006 10:55:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kB3ArRvm016435; Sun, 3 Dec 2006 10:53:27 GMT Received: from desiato.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kB3ArR0K030349 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2006 10:53:27 GMT Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E31E79EFA2 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2006 10:53:26 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 10:53:25 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: URGENT: No more fonts after xorg changes Message-ID: <20061203105325.77ee1eae@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20061202161037.315020@gmx.net> <20061202162650.218370@gmx.net> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.10.6; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_m3I=p+bK27W+RHuH9K6fU2i"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 30aa863f-b3cf-4f8b-9617-7d3aa1be902b X-Archives-Hash: a36eae8b093c8147e3fb215dfe44e215 --Sig_m3I=p+bK27W+RHuH9K6fU2i Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 19:10:27 +0000 (UTC), Duncan wrote: > Of course, here, I purposefully bought an ATI Radeon 9200 series > graphics card since it has free drivers. I couldn't legally run > slaveryware even if I wanted to, at least where EULAs are or could be > considered legal, as I simply don't sign over the rights nearly all > EULAs demand I sign over, viewing it much the same way I'd view an > attempt to restrict my other basic rights, such as freedom of religion > or freedom of expression. Until Nvidia has decent free drivers, they > don't get my money, There is no EULA that you *have* to agree to; Nvidia's installer displays the licence, but has an option to skip this, so there is no binding EULA. Nvidia's driver are free as in beer, but they are not open source. This is because the code for some of the T&L stuff is licenced from another company, and that licence doesn't allow Nvidia to distribute the source. That leaves Nvidia two choices, distribute closed source drivers for Linux, or remove that code from the Linux drivers and have everyone complain that the Linux drivers don't work as well as the Windows drivers, don't work with some games (UT2004 was the one I was researching when I found this out) and are another example of why Linux is inferior to Windows. I know which I'd prefer to have; this way the choice is mine. Choose another make of card if you wish, but trying to influence people's choices with such emotive phrases as "slaveryware" is uncalled for, unless you work for Microsoft (or possibly Novell these days). --=20 Neil Bothwick KPLA Klingon Radio : All glory, all the time! --Sig_m3I=p+bK27W+RHuH9K6fU2i Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFcqylum4al0N1GQMRAn0WAJ47ZllvVGjiI5s4xyd9ycberwr0dACfTYlF ZBfPJpgdGRIEpNejkafgcwI= =vULx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_m3I=p+bK27W+RHuH9K6fU2i-- -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list