> same as you'd have to for an open source one :) Wrong, the open source driver would already come with the kernel source. My time involved: zero.
> While Volker's "ease of installation" / "my time is worth money" type argument > is good, he obviously hasn't used Gentoo recently ;-) And I am not going to waste my time on gentoo either. ;) > # emerge nvidia-glx > and a few minutes later he was playing Quake 3 Arena ;-) You don't seem to get it. I am talking about *MOBOs*. There are plenty of open-source alternatives and I won't waste one more second on nvidia. If I wanted a driver for an nvidia graphics card, I'd click on "download + install" in yast (luckily I don't have nvidia anything, nor so far a need for 3D). It still means that nvidia is wasting SuSE's (and every other distro's) time, because if they weren't so up theirs, the driver would already be in XFree86. You insist on missing this point also. With your argument "protecting their IP" you shouldn't be using open source. Btw the IP of microchips is in their internas, not in their APIs. Most chip makers (e.g. for microcontrollers) throw away development software for free after anyone who is interested in using their chips, because they make their money with the chips they sell. nvidia is just coming up with damned excuses, they're hiding nothing any half bright person with a logic analyser worth a few $k couldn't gather anyway. All they achieve is being a PITA and wasting everyone's time. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
