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Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:26:09 +0500
From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>
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To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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Subject: [OT] Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario
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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 18:26 +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> 
>>On Monday 05 December 2005 10:52, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>
>>>a hypothetical doomsday scenario by Arjan van de Ven
>>>
>>
>>Can I ask what prompted your post?
> 
> 
> I got one too many hatemails from a "nvidia fanboy" who blamed me for
> just about anything wrong in the world.... I fear that most of these
> people have no idea why open source drivers matter, or at least what the
> consequences are for not caring about drivers being open or not.

I guess that such people also use drivers without Microsoft's digital 
signature in Windows and don't understand where their bluescreens come 
from. So talking to them is a wasted effort.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov
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