[MPlayer-users] Re: recomended components for mplayer

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:27:19PM -0800, Dean S. Messing wrote:
> Suggestion: have any of the heavyweights on this list bothered to
> approach Mark on the Xfree list about help with regard to getting
> MPlayer to better work with the closed source Nvidia drivers?

Personally I like the fact that nvidia's drivers such technically in
addition to being non-free. It's another reason to convince people not
to buy nvidia. I have no interest in helping get their drivers working
better.

> What I know is that this rabid hatred of Nvidia is simply
> counter-productive.  Unlike M$ (where such hatred is probably
> well-placed :-) they don't seem to me to be out to destroy free
> software.  They have simply chosen a business model which closes their
> source, just like 90% of all commercial companies.  I don't like it,
> but I also am not adversarial to them because they (Mark) has not
> been adversarial to me.

I don't dislike MS because they're MS. I dislike them because they
make and push proprietary software on people. Nvidia does the same and
I dislike them just the same.


Rich