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| DATE | 2005-04-10 |
| FROM | From: "P.Robert Marino"
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] SuSE and Emperor Linux
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one note on video cards ATI has had free and non free video card drivers
for years now. ther is someting funny about the non free drivers ATI has
never writen gotten around to writing drivers that make full use of the
capiblities of their Radion series cards. the free software dirver is
actualy better than the windows driver. with a littele bit of knowlege
you can get a radeon card running with the free software driver and hves
excelent 3D support.
On Apr 09, 2005 10:22 PM, Ron Guerin wrote:
>
> Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS wrote:
>
> >>That must have been a very long time ago. As you know there's only
> >>been
> >> 3 releases in the last six years and Woody and Sarge have been
> >>all-free. At this point, Debian is "purer" than Richard is, as they
> >>have rejected the FDL as non-free.
> >
> >
> > That's the measurement of Freeness?
>
> No, in fact it's an indicator that Freeness is an arbitrary thing for
> which there is no ultimate arbiter. Debian's declared the FDL
> non-free,
> obviously the FSF begs to differ. It's currently less of a problem for
> Free Software than it is for Open Source, which frankly is a mess, and
> according to Pamela Jones, stacked with people who think like Sun, and
> are looking to pretend to be Open, rather than actually being Open
> Source. In this regard, it's just as poor a choice of naming as Free
> Software is. (people confusing price and freedom) With Open Source,
> there are people who want you to confuse being able to _see_ the code
> with being able to use it as you wish. These companies want to turn
> Open Source into Microsoft's "Shared" Source. I'm sure it's no
> surprise
> that CA thinks Sun's CDDL is a good thing, CA still has no idea with
> Open Source or Free Software actually are, and they're bound to be
> easily mislead even if they mean well. (which I'm not vouching for)
>
> > I'm planning on spending a few dollars to let an expert do this.
> > If I wanted to run an installfest, I'd do it for others, but I'm not
> > that interested for my own purposes.
>
> Tell me about it. That's _exactly_ how I feel.
>
> - Ron
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