On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Felipe Sanches wrote:
I think that there is a consensus that Inkscape is a project committed to software freedom. Since drivers are software, it seems to me that our policy towards drivers is the same.
In general I would prefer Inkscape to stay out of policies and politics. Our mission is to create a vector graphics editor that rocks the world. And if, while at that, it will kick ten kinds of crap out of some proprietary solutions, personally, I'll be the last person to complain.
We used to have an agreement in the team that OpenCL is the way to go for rendering. There is absolutely no technical reason why Inkscape couldn't check whether this or that feature is available (like OpenCL or some extension of it) and then switch to use it. There's only willingness of developers to work on this.
Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org