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On Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2008, Jesús Guerrero wrote: |
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> On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 19:51:36 +0100 |
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> "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> > On Montag, 31. Dezember 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> > > Hi folks, |
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> > > I'd just want to let you know there's an petition to NV on |
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> > > opening their driver code (or at least specs) to the free world: |
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> > > * http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/ |
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> > no, 'online petitions' are a worthless waste of time. They are like a |
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> > fart in the wind - just worse. They are like farting and then tell |
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> > everybody that you have farted. You are just angry that your beloved, but |
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> > maybe crappy hardware does not work with a driver that is pretty old by |
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> > now. |
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> Not true. It is true that a petition by itself will not do anything, |
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> but it serves another purposes. Any joining effort demonstrates that |
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> people actually care about a problem. And, by the way, if you fart, |
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> the less you can do is to be honest, and not blame anyone else while |
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> you are the only guilty. |
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believe me, all the guys constantly whining around on nvnews have shown nvidia |
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already that there are people who care about this. |
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> This is not about old or new hardware, this is about getting a free |
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> driver, and that, as linux users, is something that would benefit |
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> everyone in this list. You don't seem to understand what this is |
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> about at all. |
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it is not about a free driver, it is about a stupid petition. If you want free |
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drivers, support nouveau or write a polite letter to nvidia. |
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> > > Please sign the petition and spread around this link. |
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> > Please don't spam. |
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> We could argue if this topic is valid for the list or not, that is |
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> debatable, but everything you wrote above this last sentence is pure |
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> spam. Far more spammy than the post of the original poster. And, in |
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> turn, you generated a need for additional responses, like the one from |
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> Neil Walker and this one that I am writing right now. |
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this topic and the 'support nouveau' has shown up on this list in the past AND |
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every linux site out there SEVERAL times. So yes, it is spam. And asking |
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people to spam other lists, makes it worse. |
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> Thing that could have been avoided if you just posted something in |
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> the lines of "Isn't this offtopic?", and nothing more. |
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Maybe you should have taken your own medicine? Not reacting at all to reduce |
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noise? No? |
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