Re: **NVIDIA driver petition**
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
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