Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

[Jesús Guerrero]

On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 19:51:36 +0100
"Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote:

> On Montag, 31. Dezember 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> >
> > I'd just want to let you know there's an petition to NV on
> > opening their driver code (or at least specs) to the free world:
> >
> > * http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/
>
> no, 'online petitions' are a worthless waste of time. They are like a fart in
> the wind - just worse. They are like farting and then tell everybody that you
> have farted. You are just angry that your beloved, but maybe crappy hardware
> does not work with a driver that is pretty old by now.

Not true. It is true that a petition by itself will not do anything,
but it serves another purposes. Any joining effort demonstrates that
people actually care about a problem. And, by the way, if you fart,
the less you can do is to be honest, and not blame anyone else while
you are the only guilty.

This is not about old or new hardware, this is about getting a free
driver, and that, as linux users, is something that would benefit
everyone in this list. You don't seem to understand what this is
about at all.

> >
> > Please sign the petition and spread around this link.
>
> Please don't spam.

We could argue if this topic is valid for the list or not, that is
debatable, but everything you wrote above this last sentence is pure
spam. Far more spammy than the post of the original poster. And, in
turn, you generated a need for additional responses, like the one from
Neil Walker and this one that I am writing right now.

Thing that could have been avoided if you just posted something in
the lines of "Isn't this offtopic?", and nothing more.

Regards.
-- 
Jesús Guerrero <i92guboj@×××××.es>
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