Just curious Luke, how far do you take this belief? Do you only run computers which work with a free-as-in-freedom BIOs as well?
I used NDISWRAPPER because it allowed me to move to GNU/Linux without forcing me to buy new hardware.
The way I see it: the drivers aren't immoral; the company's decision to not open source the drivers was immoral.
Rick P.
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 14:54 +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
On Monday 02 January 2006 13:03, Bill Cavalieri wrote:
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 03:17 +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
Better to deprive business and a sale than to buy hardware without [moral] drivers.
Regarding my purchase, AMD and NVidia in my notebook was a higher priority than native wlan driver.
You mean ATi, I hope. nVidia, of course, lacks hardware accel for 3D.
Which you will be hard pressed to find native wlan support in a $1000 notebook anyways, most at that price are broadcom.
Well, I guess the news of a native, moral Broadcom driver helps you here.
I'm sure somewhere your stance on this makes sense, too bad this isn't that place. I'm not understanding your comparison of morality and ndiswrapper I guess.
The only practical use for ndiswrapper is to load an immoral driver. _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug