Melchior FRANZ wrote:

> * Martin Olveyra -- Friday 25 January 2002 04:08:
> 
>>The specifications of nvidia drivers are not available for public so it is 
>>not posible to do that, but Nvidia distributes its own driver freely and 
>>works very fine.
>>Why can be somebody interested on an open source nvidia driver under such 
>>conditions?
>>
> 
> Because SGI recently sold a couple of 3D-graphics patents to Microsoft and
> Microsoft could be interested not to license these to companies that
> support anything else than DirectX. So Nvidia could drop OpenGL support for
> their cards in the next years and you can throw your card into the bucket ...
> given that you want to upgrade your Linux kernel some day.


Neh, most of the hardware designers of Nvidia come from SGI ...
No worry about that.

Erik





_______________________________________________
Flightgear-devel mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Reply via email to