restrictions ?
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:18 pm
Why is the nvidia installer considered 'restricted' given that linus himself has no issue at all with 'binary blobs' ? 
I get the whole 'we only wish to support OSS' and I even find it very honorable and all, but this whole restricted stuff imo is very unfair to a company that really never had to support us in the first place , with our huge what 5% market share ? ( that is still tiny compared to windows )
...so whats up with this restricted stuff for drivers that really 'just work' and dain well ? ( at least mine always have ) :: 'not open source atm and so we can't directly support it' , might sound a tad nicer ?
I only mention this because while this annoys me alot, I find linuxmint a huge blessing in that there is this 'light' version, yet to get what MOST users need and want for decent web browsing you can easily do it without needing some linux degree ( that and I applaud their insight to do mintinstaller in case cnr does not pan out )
cheers
g.leej
I get the whole 'we only wish to support OSS' and I even find it very honorable and all, but this whole restricted stuff imo is very unfair to a company that really never had to support us in the first place , with our huge what 5% market share ? ( that is still tiny compared to windows )
...so whats up with this restricted stuff for drivers that really 'just work' and dain well ? ( at least mine always have ) :: 'not open source atm and so we can't directly support it' , might sound a tad nicer ?
I only mention this because while this annoys me alot, I find linuxmint a huge blessing in that there is this 'light' version, yet to get what MOST users need and want for decent web browsing you can easily do it without needing some linux degree
( that and I applaud their insight to do mintinstaller in case cnr does not pan out )cheers
g.leej