[MPlayer-users] Re: recomended components for mplayer (D Richard Felker III)

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 02:19:42PM -0800, Dean S. Messing wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
>  :: 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.     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Sorry I can't quite parse this.  Are you saying you like the fact that
> there are some technical difficulties, or that they are technically good
> drivers, or what?

Apologies, it was a typo. s/such/suck/. :) The point being... if the
drivers are going to be non-free, it's better that they suck, so that
people complain to nvidia about them or don't buy nvidia. If they were
non-free but worked fine, only the hardcore free software advocates
would flame nvidia and they'd get off easy.

Rich