Re: {Spam?} Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2008-01-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2008, Neil Walker wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: no, 'online petitions' are a worthless waste of time. Not true. Here is just one recent example: http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page13090.asp completly different things. The BBC is a state funded operation. Nvidia a

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2008-01-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2008, Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 19:51:36 +0100 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Montag, 31. Dezember 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I'd just want to let you know there's an petition to NV on opening their driver code

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2008-01-02 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 15:58:53 +0100 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you should have taken your own medicine? Not reacting at all to reduce noise? No? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Maybe you are far more rude than me, but you are right in one thing: I should

RE: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2008-01-02 Thread Marzan, Richard non Unisys
-Original Message- From: Hemmann, Volker Armin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 9:59 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers On Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2008, Jesús Guerrero wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2008-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 11:33:36 -0600, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: Keeping in mind that this petition probably might not work, I think it's a good idea to let Nvidia know how many people are interested in having free drivers. This might lead them to release information on how to write

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2008-01-02 Thread Graham Murray
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem with this is that Nvidia license non-free code for use in their drivers. They are not allowed to distribute the source, or other information about the code, so they have two choices for Linux drivers: release binary drivers or release open

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2008-01-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 11:33:36 -0600, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: Keeping in mind that this petition probably might not work, I think it's a good idea to let Nvidia know how many people are interested in having free drivers. This might lead them

RE: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2008-01-02 Thread Marzan, Richard non Unisys
-Original Message- From: Enrico Weigelt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 4:00 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers * Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Jan

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2008-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 22:00:07 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: The problem with this is that Nvidia license non-free code for use in their drivers. They are not allowed to distribute the source, or other information about the code, so they have two choices for Linux drivers: They could

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2008-01-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2008, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: -Original Message- From: Enrico Weigelt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 4:00 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open

RE: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2008-01-02 Thread bjlockie
-Original Message- From: Enrico Weigelt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 4:00 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers * Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Jan

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2008-01-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 31. Dezember 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I'd just want to let you know there's an petition to NV on opening their driver code (or at least specs) to the free world: * http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/ no, 'online petitions' are a worthless waste of time. They are

{Spam?} Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2008-01-01 Thread Neil Walker
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: no, 'online petitions' are a worthless waste of time. Not true. Here is just one recent example: http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page13090.asp Be lucky, Neil -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2008-01-01 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 19:51:36 +0100 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Montag, 31. Dezember 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I'd just want to let you know there's an petition to NV on opening their driver code (or at least specs) to the free world: *

[gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2007-12-31 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'd just want to let you know there's an petition to NV on opening their driver code (or at least specs) to the free world: * http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/ Please sign the petition and spread around this link. cu --