Open Source Drivers?

[mattmatteh]

i just recently replaced my nvidia card with an ati radeon, i am free from binary blobs and intend to stay that way. i wasnt really thinking full desktop on pandora, but perhaps, my desktop now is only a p3 799 MHz. but what ever it is, i would like to use what ever package manager and update the software on it. i would rather compile from source though.

matt

 

[Svartalf]

Another point of interest: did anyone wonder why Google did not use Jazelle DBX for the Android JVM?

No, I didn't- they want too bloody much for the thing.

 

[Perky_Goth]

It's not because there is some underlying conspiracy or terrible secret that they're trying to cover up.

It is a conspiracy by lawyers and imaginary property lawyers so that customers don't know what they buy. My 0.02€.
anyway...
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Does it really matter? I can't see most Pandora users changing and recompiling their drivers; unless you're an open-for-open's sake person like RMS.


And that would be bad?
It might matter if it has stupid bugs and they don't care about fixing them for a console with less then 10000 buyers, then we'll have a 212€ piece of buggy hardware.

 

[moxie]

And that would be bad?

Fundamentalism is always bad. Always. No matter whether we're talking political, religious or licensing fundamentalism.