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Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 03:12:12 +0200
From: Christian Kujau <evil@g-house.de>
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CC: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Subject: Re: [OT] NVIDIA Driver 1.0-6111 fix
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Lee Revell wrote:
> also never understood why people make so much noise about having to use
> a closed source driver to play A CLOSED SOURCE GAME!  What's next, a

i am not aware of any *good* open source ego-shooter a la UT/Q3 nor do i
have the skills to write one :-(

> I suspect many of these users are ricers who tweak CFLAGS and compare
> benchmark scores all day, and cannot bear to use the open source driver
[..bla...]

why do you think that? could you possibly image that some users just
have to deal with the hardware they get? i was *given* (read: it was a
2nd hand gift) a nvidia card. so i took the card, knowing that i have to
deal with nvidia's linux-drivers for myself.

> binary ones.  So fix it already, this is open source, and if you can't,
> then please learn to write code or STFU.

yes, exactly. but nobody was complaing about anything here in this
thread but you.

thanks,
Christian.
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