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Anthony Gorecki wrote: |
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> On Monday, July 04, 2005 10:14 pm, Stuart Longland wrote: |
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>>Why stop there? Why not extend it to hardware manufacturers that make |
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>>heavy use of patents? |
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>>Good luck finding a decent video card for that lovely desktop of yours. :-) |
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> I'm still holding out hope that the open sourced video card project (of which |
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> I can't recall the name) will have some degree of success. It'll likely be |
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> some time before they'll even be able to release a (conservative) moderately |
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> powerful graphics card. |
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> The likelyhood of them competing with nVidia is fairly low, but I suppose that |
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> the same was once said of AMD versus Intel. |
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I think I recall that one... Tech Source if I'm not mistaken... |
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http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109831011607347&w=2 |
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I too would love to see a decent open-source friendly graphic card. ATI |
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have been pretty good with their r200-based cards... although the |
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driver's still got quite a bit to be desired. I think a completely open |
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player in the field might just be what the industry needs. |
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But that's offtopic for this thread :-) |
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