This sounds like a great idea indeed. There are many questions, I'm sure. One that comes to mind is:
*Who* would be able to vote? Luis On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Alex Deucher wrote: > This proposal comes up periodically on this and other xfree lists, but > never really goes anywhere. Why not raise money from the open source > community to fund open source driver development? everything from > revamping X (ie, speeding up the development of 5.0 features) to adding > a new Xfree86 3D driver. Not only would this add features we want, it > would also show HW companies that people don't just care about having > drivers, they want OPEN SOURCE. They care enough to donate money over > and above the cost of the hardware to to get open source drivers. I'd > be willing to take the initiative to get something like this started. > Just as an example, Blender raised over $100,000 in just 7 weeks to buy > the rights to the source code. For example we could start with r300 > support and move on to other projects as money and interest permit. > New projects could be put to a vote. What would be a reasonable cost > estimate for something like that? $50,000? smaller projects may cost > less... > > Thoughts? > > Some features of interest: > - r300 3D support > - crtc2 support for i830/45, trident, smi, savage > - 3d support for other chipsets > - translucent windows > - dynamic reconfiguring > - tv out on more chipsets > - HW accelerated indirect rendering > - new opengl extensions > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware > With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. > WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the > same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel