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Re: [News] Reasons Listed for NVIDIA to Open-source Its Driver (Just like AMD and Intel)

____/ Mark Kent on Friday 07 December 2007 13:40 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> What if nVidia had an open source driver?
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| A manufacturer of a very specific or less-known hardware pieces should also
>>| release the drivers as FOSS, because, then, it will be possible to improve
>>| or fix these drivers whenever needed. Of course, releasing a badly-written
>>| driver as FOSS is not good.
>> `----
>> 
>>
http://my.opera.com/CrazyTerabyte/blog/2007/08/10/what-if-nvidia-had-an-open-source-driver
>> 
> 
> Even a badly written one would be very useful, as it could be improved
> upon.

That's why the specs are needed (see appended reference). There are already
some open source drivers, but NVIDIA looks down on them and refuses to help.

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