> Um, yes nVidia said they will correct their GPL violation. That's not
> what concerns me. What concerns me is people demanding that we start
> putting more non-free software in the distro. Pretty soon it'll get to
> the point where 25% of the distro (probably mostly drivers) are closed
> source. There's something disturbing about that. I don't want to go back
> to waiting 6 months to a year for a vendor to update their drivers. The
> power of the free software movement is to allow anyone with the proper
> knowledge to improve code..make it more efficient. I'd be just about
> willing to bet that within a month of nVidia releasing GPL'ed drivers,
> their video cards would see much improvement in their performance under
> Linux. So I guess my point is, if people want to buy closed source
> hardware, they can install the drivers themselves.
>
Ok I see your point and I totally agree with you. John Carmack of ID
even said if the source code for drivers were available he would
take time and optimize each vendors drivers for linux.
