On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:53:25AM -0800, Justin Bengtson wrote:
>
> the various BSD's, of which none have
> nvidia support
What makes you say that? It's true, nVidia is "one of the bad guys", one
of those manufacturers that's completely uncool wrt OpenSource:
>From the "License For Customer Use of NVIDIA Software" (which includes
drivers):
2.1.2 Linux Exception. Notwithstanding the foregoing terms of
Section 2.1.1 (note: Section 2.1.1 is your basic one copy per user/
computer clause), SOFTWARE designed exclusively for the Linux
operating system (sic) may be copied and redistributed, provided that
the binary files thereof are not modified in any way (except for
unzipping of compressed files).
2.1.3 Limitations
No Reverse Engineering. Customer may not reverse engineer, decompile,
or disassemble the SOFTWARE, nor attempt in any other manner to obtain
the source code.
So, yes, the fancy features of the nVidia cards won't work on *BSD, but
the *BSDs use XFree86, which does support nVidia cards in a generic manner.
nVidia might release GNU/Linux binaries (and ONLY binaries), but that does
NOT make them OpenSource friendly. It also means that GNU/Linux does not,
and probably never will support nVidia. What it means is that nVidia
supports GNU/Linux because it doesn't want to lose market share, which,
IMO, deserves to go to companies that DO release hardware info and/or
source code, or at the very least, would allow reverse engineering.
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