____/ Mark Kent on Monday 10 September 2007 16:51 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> NVIDIA's Calm Before The Storm
>>
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>>| It has been 80 days since the last NVIDIA Linux display driver was
>>| released.
>>|
>>| [...]
>>|
>>| This week is already very busy with the X Developer Summit going on where
>>| AMD will be releasing their new ATI R500/600 open-source driver as well as
>>| the specifications and it's very likely that the new NVIDIA 100.xx.xx
>>| series driver will meet the world in the coming days.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjA0NA
>>
>> NVIDIA: Got Specifications?
>
> I think nVidia would be very foolish indeed not to release OSS drivers
> for their cards. Aside from anything else, the cost savings alone will
> be huge in maintaining the code, as well as the quality gains which will
> be made from having the drivers open-sourced.
They'll have to at the end. It's inevitable. Better sooner than later.
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