Thread: Firmware 1.3 on its way????
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-09-14 , 12:08
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#110
Originally Posted by ndi View Post
For an open project, if it's broken, you get to keep the pieces. Or, you get a refund (tee hee it's free so up yours). It is the reason my brush with Linux was so short-lived, back then my video card wasn't supported and after asking around I was told more or less directly to guy another card (back then it was the god of video cards).
Ah, I see you ran into a situation where the vendor of your hardware felt it OK to not support their hardware. I don't see how you can blame Linux for that at all.

This is the same problem we hit with 3D cores in pretty much every mobile device: none of the drivers are open source which making ports with 3D support either impossible or requiring dirty hacks, or you are forever locked to a particular version of some software (like X.)

This is entirely the hardware vendor's fault.