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Re: [PLUG] Want Video Card Recommendation
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From: David A. Harding
> You can donate to the Free Software Foundation. They've done
> something
> you probably won't: protest in public[1].
>
> [1] http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/rms-ati-protest.html
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Yes, donate to the FSF, they are a very cool group. Though they
need better stickers. :-)
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----- Original Message -----
[mailto:dave@dtrt.org]
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion
List [mailto:plug@lists.phillylinux.org]
Sent: Sun, 14 Sep 2008
15:52:31 -0400
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Want Video Card Recommendation
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 02:09:42PM -0400, Matthew Rosewarne wrote:
> > I don't think there's much else you could do [to get free software
> > video drivers] that they would remotely care about.
>
> Allegedly, Richard Stallman once threatened to suicide bomb a
> proprietary software company's office.[*] I think they'd care
> about that.
>
> Discounting illegal and unethical tactics, you still have several
> other options.
>
>
> You can donate to the Software Freedom Law Center. They not only
> protect
> free software developers from unscrupulous lawyers, they're the
> organization NVidia or AMD (formerly ATI) calls when they want to make
> their code or specifications free, but their lawyers aren't sure about
> the consequences.
>
> You can write them a letter. It won't go to the company president, but
> it might go to the company's resident free software advocate. In the
> hands of an advocate, a customer's letter is not just a tool but a
> reason to keep fighting.
>
> > I don't see how [reverse-engineered drivers] encourages them to be
> > more open [...]
>
> A free software driver destroys the argument for keeping code secret.
>
> -Dave
>
> [*] Sam Williams, "Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for
> Free Software," Page 97. Online at:
>
> http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch07.html
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> 1 (609) 997-0765 Email: dave@dtrt.org
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