On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:26:05PM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:48:44AM -0200, Rogerio Brito 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. > > > > Of course they are aware of Open Source, but a friendly reminder > > together with signatures of lots of people (among which are potential > > customers) is a great incentive for any company to change its mind. > > I once read a statement of an NVidia-guy who said that they would like > to open their source code but they can't because of several NDA with > other companys. > Phil Rogerio's point still stands, NVidia's reasons for being Free Software hostile are irrelevant and of no concern to me/us. My message to this and other such companies is simple: if your hardware is not well supported by Free software (meaning NO proprietary, kernels modules, XF4 modules, libraries etc etc) then i will will take my business elsewhere. I don't care what the excuse is, if they feel they need to sign NDA's with some company that prevent them from properly documenting the hardware or releasing driver source, that is fine but that choice will cost them customers. just my $0.02 -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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