I think it depends on how much support they can drum up. If it's only 200,000
then it'll be 2d then there is no advantage for most over what we currently
have (probably). There may be special use cases though for a niche audience.
If it is a million they think they can get something competitive with
commercial offerings from INTEL/NVIDIA/AMD. Competitive might be too strong
of a statement. They use the word "modern" though which to me implies at
least early generation voodoo cards (some of the first 3d accelerated cards).
They do state this is targeted at the desktop too if I'm not mistaken.
What makes this project different than past projects is they have core of it
done already and the expertise to follow through to a complete 3d accelerated
product if support can be drummed up.
Between what lenny2010 found out about the VGA BIOS situation and the
response from Jim MacLeod it sounds like we have a winner as far as free
software goes.
I'm prepared to make a financial contribution to this effort.
I won't do so immediately. If anybody thinks there is a reason to object on
free software grounds speak up. Otherwise I'll contribute something before
the fund raiser is over.
