Has anyone stopped to think that maybe nvidia can't open source their drivers? I know for a fact they can't because of certain things, that if anyone has paid attention to game boards or interviews, restrict them from open sourcing their code.
I personally would love to see their 4.0 drivers released as open source, and I know they are trying to one day reach that goal, but for right now like I said. They can't open source them. Terry On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 05:12:04PM +0000, John Carline babbled: > 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 > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > //Terry Warner// :[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Senior Technical Associate : http://netlabs.net Public PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
