On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Leon Brooks wrote:
| guran wrote:
| > I just wanted you to make, what I thought, a smart move, not to leave
| > the gaming industry loosing money on Linux.
|
| The smartest move would be to write a nice email to NVidia, setting out
| your reasons for wanting them to open-source their drivers. If you phrase
| it in terms of benefits to them, that is, "more exposure" rather than
| "easier for me to get", they are more likely to respond.
|
| Indeed, it wouldn't hurt if many of the people on this list did that. To
| truly rile up feelings of jealousy, point out how much trouble and pain
| manufacturers go to to get their drivers and services adopted by Microsoft,
| and that Linux is growing, Microsoft is shrinking, where do you want to be
| two years from now?
Don't forget that NVidia is developing graphics chip for upcoming Microsoft
X-Box. And MS invested in NVidia around $200 million, if I remember correctly.
(and set-top/game console market is HUGE, really HUGE. And very important for
MS and NVidia)
All this reminds me MS-Corel (And MS-Apple) deal.
Looks like also that MS and NVidia co-developing DirectX. Opening driver code
they can really affect some MS-specific code.
|
| It will do you, me, the world more good if NVidia open-sources than if
| Mandrake ships a closed driver.
Anyway, I have ATI Rage Mobility (Mach 64) in my laptop, and don't have
3D-accelerated driver for it.
--
Vadim Plessky
