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Date:      Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:12:58 -0700
From:      Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors
Message-ID:  <20081212181258.GE36348@kokopelli.hydra>
In-Reply-To: <20081212120437.B3687@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:05:20PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >
> >So . . . are you saying that increased support for 3D accelerated
> >graphics is not an "improvement", and should therefore not be considered
> >a worthy goal?
>=20
> full support of open hardware standards is an requirement.
>=20
> support for closed hardware standards isn't important.

I disagree.  I believe, rather, that support for closed hardware specs
isn't *as* important -- but is still at least somewhat important.

--=20
Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
My first programming koan: If a lambda has the ability to access its
context, but there isn't any context to access -- is it still a closure?

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