From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 25 20:04:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82D4916A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:04:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from moghedien.mukappabeta.net (moghedien.mukappabeta.net [194.145.150.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2413143D5C for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:04:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mkb@mukappabeta.de) Received: from [192.168.2.10] (pD9E69053.dip.t-dialin.net [217.230.144.83]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by moghedien.mukappabeta.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 997842D74; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:00:05 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41A63AE3.9020008@mukappabeta.de> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:04:51 +0100 From: Matthias Buelow User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041124) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: busta@33rpm.biz References: <51611.192.168.0.200.1101398532.squirrel@192.168.0.200> <200411251706.22229.mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk> <1101405168.99948.43.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <200411251807.47294.mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk> <20041125194327.C5321@bigtower.net> <1101411381.568.1.camel@grass.dyndns.org> <1101411674.99948.51.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <86u0rdr9l0.fsf@srvbsdnanssv.interne.kisoft-services.com> <1101412864.568.7.camel@grass.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <1101412864.568.7.camel@grass.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:04:37 -0000 alex bustamante wrote: > Why is it so hard for the manufacturers to release everything in the > open? every *ix/bsd user on the planet would run and buy their cards if > everything was open. "Every *ix/bsd" user is still a lot less than 0.5% of their clientele, so they simply don't bother. -- Matthias Buelow; mkb@{mukappabeta,informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de