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On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 04:56:37PM +0000, Ben Goodger wrote:
> On 15/11/06, Matt Lee <mattl@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 03:24:05PM +0000, Someone wrote:
> >
> >> >It is indeed. Besides, it's not like (at least my) system is flooded
> >with
> >> >> proprietary software - a flash plugin and a few codecs hardly counts
> >as
> >> >a
> >> >> flood, in opposition to the entire system...
> >
> >"Those who would give up essential liberty to obtain a video driver,
> >deserve neither liberty nor video drivers."
>
> Those who give up functionality they want to obtain liberty,
> deserve neither liberty nor that functionality.
So you're saying it's better to have no control over your own computer, and
have Microsoft/Apple/<insert-evil-monopolist-here> decide what you can and
can't do with your own machine, as long as you get shiny graphics. wobbly
windows, and 40MB content-free Flash websites? Or am I misunderstanding your
statement?
Personally, I have no interest in XGL/AIGLX, Flash, etc (at the moment I'm not
even using X). I'd much rather have a completely free system than one that
looks nice (for a given value of "nice").
bma
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