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RE: hardware consumer report
- To: Game Wizard <gwizard(at-nospam)surfree.net.il>
- Subject: RE: hardware consumer report
- From: Matan Ziv-Av <matan(at-nospam)svgalib.org>
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 19:13:54 +0200 (IST)
- cc: Linux <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>, ogoldshmidt(at-nospam)computer.org
- Delivered-To: linux.org.il-linux-il@linux.org.il
- In-Reply-To: <OMEPLKENNCHNLGDDEOFIMEJNCAAA.gwizard@surfree.net.il>
- Reply-To: Matan Ziv-Av <matan(at-nospam)svgalib.org>
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Game Wizard wrote:
> About hardware: DON'T buy Voodoo cards as 3dfx company no longer exists and
> it was sold to nVidia (maker of GeForce)
And why does it matter? all voodoo information is available, and the
driver is open source, so there is no problem. In contrast, nVidia's
driver is closed source, so you are dependent on their goodwill.
--
Matan Ziv-Av. matan@svgalib.org
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