Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

[Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>]

* Don Armstrong (don@debian.org) [050227 19:05]:
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > * Justin Pryzby (justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net) [050225 22:35]:
> > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 04:23:07PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> > > > I'll see about taking a closer look at parts to see if it
> > > > actually makes sense, but so far it looks fine to me. As it is,
> > > > I don't see any difference between this and any other vendor not
> > > > releasing hardware specs and yet a Free driver exists. Not a
> > > > good thing, but not non-free either.

> > > Well put.  I think it is arguably not "source code", however, if
> > > the source we are seeing is the result of some sed-like script
> > > which converts a sort of custom #defined MAGIC_NUMBERs to id
> > > numbers, and then removes the #definitions.

> > Is there some proof that the files are created that way, or is this
> > just your assumptation?

> It's not either. It's a hypothetical.

Why are you throwing hypothetical reasons into a discussion? Don't you
have a real problem to work on?


Cheers,
Andi
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