Re: **NVIDIA driver petition**
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
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