Mark Knecht posted on Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:15:15 -0700 as excerpted: > Now, lest it sound like I'm complaining, I'm really not. I'm just saying > how I see the truth about this stuff. I prefer FLOSS when it does what I > need, but being FLOSS it may or may not be up to the quality I can get > from closed source support, especially in the area of hardware support.
Agreed with everything you said. Here, when FLOSS doesn't cut it for particular hardware, it's as if that feature doesn't exist on that hardware, since I don't consider non-FLOSS an option (now that I know the difference, as I said, I didn't when I check Linux support for that last nVidia card before I switched). But as I said, that's a personal decision. Others have different priorities and different consciences, and can consider the non-FLOSS option based on the the risks of when the company will drop updates. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
