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very very easy. to understand all this... |
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OK, lets see the simple example. |
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I have ATI card with x.org-7.1 drivers, nothing speciall - just poor BUT |
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stable 2D & 3D |
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I probably COULD use closed-source driver |
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BUT if my machine then will NOT work properly, I will achieve memory |
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leaks etc (past shows many examples..) what can I do ? |
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NOTHING. the only way is to use open-source drivers instead of |
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closed-source, see : it's OK now, and then say to ATI guys : hey, sth |
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wrong is in your drivers :P:P:P (and then I will have no answer or some |
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answers after some months..) |
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it's stupid to say : open source (as GPL, LGPL, FLOSS etc..) is not |
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necessary as we can just buy "open source" (but closed in fact) |
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software. because of - closed source is "IP" (intellectuall property - |
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watever this means, abstractive and poor words) and NOBODY exept the |
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owner CAN modify it, change etc. |
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then, as result, I have to BUY it every time I see new bug in software. |
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As I sale some software in my work, I can see it many times that ONLY |
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because of I work with right people - they play RIGHT on this market and |
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I CAN achieve the result as non-buggy-software sold only once, if |
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necessary upgraded a few times. but this is very speciall, not-so-wide |
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market of specialised solutions, B2B - and NOBODY can say "this is the |
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same as whole-sale" - I do mean "SOHO market" with hundreds thousands |
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buyers and hundreds of sellers |
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So - believe me, I will NEVER use closed source IF i have any |
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alternative software, even if the preformance of this closed-source is |
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about 150% of really OPEN source solutions. because of. I do NOT want to |
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argue this, just its my experience ;) |
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thats the DEBIAN way ;)) @ gentoo amd64station :) & @ gentoo list;) |
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On the other hand - in my opinion - B2B is completely another thing, and |
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sometimes there is NOT any other solution than closed-source or BINARY |
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software, but maintained && sold by RIGHT people, with full support & |
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many features which makes this way right. |
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regards, |
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Piotr |
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