On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 03:31 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > In the hardware market, the best way to get nVidia to provide specs > is not too buy their hardware. If it's costing them money not to > provide specs, they'll have incentive to change their behavior. Yes, but I seriously doubt that our numbers are big enough to make a dent in their profit margin. The situation's more bizarre when you realise that NVidia produces components, not hardware. They make chipsets for graphics cards (and other peripherals), that will be built by other companies, but they don't sell graphics cards. It's always been in the interests of manufacturers to release useful chip documentation. The more information available, the more they're used. For those unfamiliar with that sort of thing, go and Google for things like NE5534, TL071... You'll get free manufacturer's data sheets, with product specifications, test results, basic circuit diagrams of the chip and simple demonstration circuits to use them in. You won't get the blueprints to clone the chip, but you'll get all the information you need to make use of it. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
