Also, I know in my heart that should nVidia decide to stop developing Linux drivers, they will find a way to get the proper information to the DRI program. I imagine that they would require DRI to not distribute source on their card support, and to sign an NDA on some parts of the driver.
Not unreasonable considering that their driver architecture is the most advanced in the industry. One driver can talk to any card, from the latest GF3 to the oldest TNT. A serious advantage over ATi and Matrox, something that might help ATi to gain on nVidia... At least nVidia delivers a working, good driver, even if it isn't open source. Promise, for example, has their own binary driver that sucks really bad, and they even go so far as to try and sabotage the driver development programs for the open source driver for their softRaid cards... Terry > <js> And to add to this, it's sad that some people worry about what may > or may not happen in the future. Consider this, Nvidia is supporting > Linux, they are providing drivers which is more than some companies are > doing and some people fail to give them their props for that. More so, > some companies support Linux by releasing the hardware specifications > and leaving it up the Open Source programmers to implement, then they > ride the we support Linux wave. Nvidia is using their programing talent > to support these cards, there is something to be said for that. I don't > care as much about how the support is coming, as long as it is there. > Now there are those who are more philosophically "pure" then me, and > they have the choice to use what they want. As I have that choice for > myself. I accept the reality that the programing talent in the Open > Source world can not keep up with every piece of hardware for the pc > world and if a manufacture choices to support there hardware they have > the right to chose how, be it open source or not. > > As to the argument I am a slave to them because I use there cards and > drivers is a far cry from being a slave because of my data being locked > in a closed format. I can switch a video card much quicker than I can > change critical stored data. It's only a piece of hardware, it's not my > data which is more important for me to own access to.
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