Non-opensource drivers

Tim Schmidt timschmidt at gmail.com
Sun Nov 26 15:21:34 GMT 2006


On 11/26/06, Karoliina Salminen <karoliina.t.salminen at gmail.com> wrote:
> You misunderstood me in multiple ways.
> I would like to put it differently: we both are here for ideology,
> but there are differences in it. My vision is that free Linux becomes
> number 1 choice operating system in the world and the monopoly of
> Microsoft ends. This requires that it works out of the box for
> everybody and there are different ways to achieve that goal, some are
> faster and more realistic and some are more unrealistic and slower.

Yeah.  I know.  It's totally unrealistic to think that we could
develop a single graphics driver after only producing a world-class
kernel, GUI(s), the server software that's the backbone of the
internet (apache, bind, etc.), office suites, world-class browsers,
etc.  Totally unrealistic.

--tim



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