Sergio wrote: > > I mean Netscape project was reduced 300% of its souce code after becoming a > open source an Mozila starts. So before that we coul'd also think they were > doing the best. Wouldn't it be some presumptious they are really doing the > best. I don't understand why the don't open all especifications so the open > source community coul'd maybe improving the code. After all they just > developing the architecture. The boards are made by manufacteres.
3D Accelerators get sold due to their performance. So the benchmarks are nearly the only argument for selling a card (cf. how poorly Matrox performes in that sector; they can only sell to bussines people not to the mainstream). So the most important marketing fact are good benchmark results (under Windos). Thus the drivers get very much attention. NVidia cards have nearly (i.e. +/-) the same performance under Linux as they've got under Windos. So we can assume that the Linux drivers are getting the optimum performance. No need for OpenSource in this case. To the point that nVidia might drop OpenGL support: I *really* doubt that. nVidia doesn't only produce the mainstream chips, they also produce the Quadro workstation chips (which are basically the same; just take your soldering iron and change one resistor...). DirectX doesn't count a bit on workstations. Oh, and they are actively contributing to the devolpment of the OpenGL spec. No need for OpenSource in this case. I hope you get an ATi card. So that keeps nVidia from getting a monoply and thuse the prices down, so that I can afford my next nVidia based card ;) CU, Christian PS: That discussion is actually extremely offtopic. -- The idea is to die young as late as possible. -- Ashley Montague Whoever that is/was; (c) by Douglas Adams would have been better... _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
