Kristian Rink wrote: > > P.S.: On the other hand, people could make an organized initiative to > > promote a petition to make NVidia aware of the Open Source movement > > and ask thm for open drivers. > > I agree whole-heartedly with you on that, since even being quite happy with > the performance of their TNT / GeForce stuff, this driver policy is close to > being inacceptable to me,
It's *totally* unacceptable to me. I'm in the process of shopping for a new AGP card and based on the performance specs had decided to buy a GeForce2, either a GTS or a MX. After evaluating their support for the Free Software Foundation and/or OpenSource community, NVIDA has been dropped from consideration. I think I'll take another look at the Matrox G450. > and now after they 'acquired' the 3dfx company, probably things might as well > be this way, soon, with the drivers for Voodoo(x) - chipset based display > cards. Seeing the fact that most Debian users I know are considering the idea > of OpenSource or even 'free software' according to Stallman's ideas an > important thing, Make that the single *most* important thing. > I guess that this list would be a good place to at least get started this > petition idea, to gather some folks which would be willing to sign and to > continue this off-list, then... Please write me if you're also using an > NVidia-chipset based card and if you also dislike their way of distributing > device drivers and thus introducing proprietary pieces of software in a > basically open operating system... > > Thanks in advance. > Regards, > Kristian Rink > I'd be happy to have my name added to the petition, but it's already too late for them to sell me a card. John -- Powered by the Penguin
