[olug] [OT] Video Card Recommendation

[Luke-Jr]

> For us mere mortals, I vote with my pocket book when possible.  I know
> that AIT has traditionally had a more open software support
> infrastructure but not a high level of additional support outside of
> supplying the community with the basic set of specificatinos.  NVidia
> only releases binary drivers that are written and released by their
> internal programmers.  While this isn't open, it does show that they
> are actually putting their own money in to Linux - in essence they are
> voting with their money too.

A proprietary fork of Linux is only slightly better than Windows. And in some 
ways worse, since it disrespects the terms of the Linux developers.