Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

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Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> AFAIK, nVidia is locked up in closed source licences and non-disclosure
> agreements, and that is the only reason why they don't provide specs and
> open source drivers. It appears nVidia has good will, but legal issues are
> a showstopper.

That's bullshit. There are repeated public statements from NVidia that they 
don't see any market or demand for "open source" (Free Software) drivers and 
that therefore they don't care. Don't delude yourself!

> And the fact that they provide support next to none (of their closed
> source drivers) demonstrates that they *do* care about Linux market, and
> do take the community support seriously.

I disagree. Providing proprietary drivers is NOT providing support to Free 
Software or GNU/Linux. (In fact it's worse than doing nothing because some 
people who would otherwise help the Nouveau project are content with using 
the proprietary crap.)

        Kevin Kofler

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