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Re: [PLUG] Want Video Card Recommendation
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On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 05:21:11PM -0400, Matthew Rosewarne wrote:
> On Sunday 14 September 2008, David A. Harding wrote:
> > A free software driver destroys the argument for keeping code
> > secret.
>
> If NVidia still makes the sale without having to do anything
> themselves, what incentive does it give them to cooperate[?]
None. The free driver destroys the argument against freedom; the other
tactics, including your boycott, provide the incentive.
* * *
> [...]
The relative efficacy of various persuasion tactics is endlessly
debatable. I only sought to prove the following point:
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 07:47:06AM -0400, David A. Harding wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 06:47:51PM -0400, Matthew Rosewarne wrote:
> > [T]he purchase of one card [over another] is hardly going to
> > change the fortunes of either company, [but] it's the only real
> > way you can have any effect [sic] on their behaviour.
>
> There are many other effective ways to affect NVidia's behavior.
I think I've succeeded.
Thanks,
-Dave
P.S. I'd appreciate it if you set your email client's text wrap margin
to 78 characters or less so I can quote you in a terminal without
re-flowing your text. (Your current wrap margin appears to be 80
characters; see the following 79-character line quoted verbatim
at 81 characters.)
> If NVidia still makes the sale without having to do anything themselves., what
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