On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:45:12 +0100, Sandman wrote:
>> When the above hits the front page of
>> Slashdot, many people will have a reason to turn over to the ATi shelf.
>
> "Many people" being mostly unix nerds, all of which aren't in the
> Nvidia target audience. Gamers, generally, don't have time to read
> Slashdot and just hunt FPS, not eventual bugs in the Mac nvidia
> drivers...
True.......
>> An Open Source community could not only help Nvidia's image, but
>> also the quality of its product/s.
>
> Yeah, that is the word in cola - but I've yet to see any examples of
> this. Gimp isn't better quality than Photoshop, OO isn't better
> quality than Office, Firefox isn't better quality than Safari (but
> obviously better quality than IE) and so on.
It's just more fluff from Roy Schestowitz the head fluffer at Manchester
Universities 'Fresher Day'.
> I'm not trying to step on some toes here, Those are amazing products
> considering how they were developed, but I have yet to see a product
> that actually benefits in *quality* by being open source. In fact, if
> you look at the Mac, the application with the worst quality are
> generally those that are lifted from Linux OSS. OSS Mac software can
> be a lot better, but the best Mac software is most definitely the ones
> made by small or medium-sized companies with a good focus on what
> makes a Mac a Mac and sells great software that leverages OSX
> functions and by costing money, keeps them at the job. Great examples
> of this are OmniGraffle, Acquisition, NetNewsWire and Interarchy just
> to name a few from the top of my head.
This is very true.
Pick up just about any OSS application and now look at things like:
1. An inferior interface.
2. No or little help system.
3. A PITA to install.
4. Depending upon which one of the 700+ different versions of Linux you
are using, differences in stability.
5. Constant bug fixes which is good for alpha software but not released
products.
6. Support usually limited to geek stuff and not real life problems.
ie:I once asked a question about getting alsa to give me lower
latancy with a particular soundcard and I was introduced to the world
of C++ programming, stacks and all kinds of other kernel hacks.
Jeeeeeezzz!! All I wanted to do was make music with the thing.
> OSS software on Linux may look better, but I think that's because
> they're running in a "lesser" environment without a strong UI
> foundation. I'm not trying to diss KDE or Gnome, but I do think they are
> pale compared to commercial UI's. I realize, of course, that you won't
> agree with that, which is fine.
I think the kde environment is better, overall than Windows but not as
good as OSX.
Most people don't care though and use Windows like a huge task switcher
anyhow.
I do not like gnome.
> So, the point is that sure, Nvidia had a buggy driver. They won't lose
> any customers due to it thoguh. Do I like buggy drivers? No, of course
> not. But do I think it would have helped Nvidia in any way if the driver
> were OSS? No, I do not.
Nope....
The people in COLA have a totally twisted and out of touch with reality
outlook on what the real world thinks of these little faults.
People like Roy Schestowitz need to get out from behind the keyboard and
step into real life once in a while.
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