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        <title><![CDATA[This problem can be extreme with generic cards]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I agree that it can be a major problem, particularly with generic graphics cards. I am never inclined to pay double to get a 'genuine' nvidia card and of course this means i can suffer very bizarre problems when I use their drivers, even though the card is essentially the same and has one of their chips on it. Maybe we should all contact the major manufacturers and ask for open source drivers. I wouldn't care if they continued to develop fuller featured drivers that were closed source.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:26:05 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'm still missing the point I guess]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If companies want us to use their devices why not publish drivers?  Yes, it's more trouble to produce multiple versions, but look at the animosity the current situation creates.Personally, I'd like everyone to be like HP (and I don't even like HP).  They update their Linux drivers frequently so you can use current equipment.  I know it costs development dollars, but it keeps the market quiet and happy.  I even moved to HP printers for just that reason so it could be a good market move for others to follow suit...an expanded customer base is supposed to be a good thing I thought.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:14:05 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yeah, I'd  like to see more open source drivers]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[but I don't feel it is a personal requirement for the drivers to be open. Sure, there would be benefits to having them open, security being just one. If the vendors of proprietary drivers would publish enough info so that someone could more easily develop their own open version, that would be fine also, as far as getting drivers that work.Interestingly, when I was using older desktop machines, I had fewer trouble with drivers when installing Linux than when installing Windows. Seems like, once the open source community nails a driver down, they are able to write very good drivers. Of course, most people want new drivers for their brand new hardware  right now, so this doesn't help many users, but I do think it shows that the community can do very well with little information. A bit more info, and open drivers could be available very shortly after a bit of hardware is released.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[seanferd]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:59:28 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[odd isn't it]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[that Linus Torvalds isn't among the group moaning about proprietary drivers.This issue came up in the furor before the release of the GNU-GPL V3.Linus explicitly stated that as long as they are making drivers for linux he will use then, if there is no open source driver available. The kernel itself will never adopt V3 of the GNU-GPL, in part because it would prohibit including proprietary drivers.I tend to agree with Linus, if there isn't an open source driver, then I'll use a proprietary driver. Fortunately, none of my systems requires a proprietary driver.[ NVidia's open source driver works just about as well as their proprietary one, only a few features not implemented in the kernel nv module. which doesn't bother me, since I don't really need the features it does implement. ]]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jaqui]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:47:14 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[kinda straddling the fence on this one]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[here's how i feel:if proprietary drivers means more support for more cards - i'm all for it. but if those proprietary drivers cause kernel crashes (like i've seen many times) or those proprietary drivers are less-than-acceptable, then i'm all against it.i have had installations where the closed drivers were the only thing that worked. and on different installations i have had those same drivers crash the machine left and right.so, in a nutshell, if a company can come up with GOOD closed drivers than fine. if not - then open them up and let the linux community have at the specs so they can create good drivers.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:11:07 -0700</pubDate>
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