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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>just dont understand this comment about
scitech:<BR>>"They went out of business or at least the graphics
business..."<BR>Is it not the whole point of Open Source that we do not
depend on some <BR>company being or not in business, they left us source code,
its GPL </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>"They
weren't open source.. you can't get the driver source code.."<BR></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2>>"They weren't open source..",</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>i dont understand, by 'open source' i mean
GPL, what do you men by 'open source'? and
'weren't'?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>its true, they were not GPL, but they ARE now, i
just dont see a problem if something was not GPL in the
past?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>by 'they' i mean Scitech SNAP/MGL
drivers</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>in previous post someone mentioned:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> " I downloaded a few files from
</FONT><A href="http://www.scitechsoft.com/ftp/devel/"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>http://www.scitechsoft.com/ftp/devel/</FONT></A><BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>but it seems they don't release any source for the card
drivers"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>what do you guys mean when you say 'driver source
code' or 'card drivers'?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>i would say - YES, 'driver source code' or graphic
'card drivers',</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>yes, thats exactly what SNAP/MGL is - collection of
drivers - little programs to control your hardware - ...you download
it as *source code*, compile it and it becoms binary file, binary opengl driver
is 800kb, single file!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>are you saying there is some "card
driver" some *part* of the SNAP/MGL *source code* that actually
is not *source code*, but binary file hiden somewhere in the
source code and merged to driver file at compile time?</FONT></DIV>
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