From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 12 18:13:38 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EEE41065676 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:13:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-318.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-318.bluehost.com [67.222.54.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2AC0D8FC16 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:13:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 19285 invoked by uid 0); 12 Dec 2008 18:11:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy6.bluehost.com with SMTP; 12 Dec 2008 18:11:13 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=doSAbNgGLkp/R6VeZ14MEF5qlaE4pxNaZv4mMthLdbfRfiP1/fRjxQ+1vc4KOun4fXNNWALlNJsKb4Nojd64rN3EV6hBpyUGip9MLWDkdu87Qy8zNjpzjWxv2GoC6g0E; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LBCVs-0005H3-Vm for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:13:21 -0700 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:12:58 -0700 Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:12:58 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081212181258.GE36348@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1228733482.4495.14.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20081211103742.21621a6d@gom.home> <20081211190951.GB845@comcast.net> <20081211113257.405a082c@gom.home> <20081211202023.GC845@comcast.net> <20081211134622.15c81ecd@gom.home> <20081212002813.GD32300@kokopelli.hydra> <20081211170011.777236f8@gom.home> <20081212015814.GB32982@kokopelli.hydra> <20081212120437.B3687@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cPi+lWm09sJ+d57q" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081212120437.B3687@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:13:38 -0000 --cPi+lWm09sJ+d57q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:05:20PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > >So . . . are you saying that increased support for 3D accelerated > >graphics is not an "improvement", and should therefore not be considered > >a worthy goal? >=20 > full support of open hardware standards is an requirement. >=20 > support for closed hardware standards isn't important. I disagree. I believe, rather, that support for closed hardware specs isn't *as* important -- but is still at least somewhat important. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] My first programming koan: If a lambda has the ability to access its context, but there isn't any context to access -- is it still a closure? --cPi+lWm09sJ+d57q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAklCqaoACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKVDDwCgzqCojq+ZVHyIl15aCJ0SIgXI cdIAoJIGXhb30pwAG4bSm4ds4tCxwPSr =gG7S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cPi+lWm09sJ+d57q--