From: James Simmons <jsimmons@edgeglobal.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 11:55:03 -0400 (EDT)

Re: opinion of GGI

On 8 May 1999, Tijs van Bakel wrote:

> 
> --Cristoph Egger:--
> > Why you love or hate GGI? What could/must be improved?
> 
> Personally I like libggi a lot. It is a good concept and it works
> great. About kgi it's hard to have an opinion :)

As do I. I just wish for more docs. 

> 
> I'd like to write videodrivers for kgi once I have the time (I started
> out on two back with the old version, but the big changes made me feel
> useless and I quit). The thing that bothers me most with the new kgi
> is the possibility of having binary video drivers. If there were
> another project that would forbid this option I'd work for that one. I
> really don't want to work hard on something and have the big companies
> I hate most make money of it.

This is the reason the KGI drivers are not in the kernel. they don't like
the idea of this API where companies can make binary only drivers. I
remember once I stated I would write binary drivers just to support a card
under linux. Boy did I get hate mail. Almost all kernel developers have
the attitude give us the docs are forget it. 

> all in all I like the ggi project, but I can only talk about it from
> the user-side.
> 
> --
> Tijs van Bakel, a.k.a. Smoke of C.R.A.P.
> <smoke@casema.net>, http://www.casema.net/~smoke/crap.html
>