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Open letter to nVidia: Please open source the legacy nVidia video driversOpen letter to nVidia: Please open source the legacy nVidia video driversPosted Jul 20, 2006 3:45 UTC (Thu) by vmlinuz (subscriber, #24)Parent article: Open letter to nVidia: Please open source the legacy nVidia video drivers
Uh, no comment on your content - which makes fine sense, and for the record I would only buy hardware with open drivers.
But you might want to look into the possibility of numbered footnotes rather than ********** :-)
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Open letter to nVidia: Please open source the legacy nVidia video drivers Posted Jul 20, 2006 9:26 UTC (Thu) by Randakar (guest, #27808) [Link]
Kinda exhausted the number space already with the ordered list of arguments. ;-)
You're right though, it's not pretty.
Open letter to nVidia: Please open source the legacy nVidia video drivers Posted Jul 24, 2006 23:40 UTC (Mon) by bluefoxicy (guest, #25366) [Link] Perhaps you should review some papers from the NSA[1] or check Google[2].
Open letter to nVidia: Please open source the legacy nVidia video drivers Posted Jul 23, 2006 20:51 UTC (Sun) by thomask (guest, #17985) [Link] ...and while we're about it, you might make a good impression on the corporate world if you took care to distinguish between "it's" and "its".
As in, "I call upon nVidia to put it's money where it's mouth is." As I'm sure you know, the posessive of "it" is always "its", and the abbreviation for "it is" is always "it's".
So the above quote should read, "I call upon nVidia to put its money where its mouth is".
Just a thought.
Open letter to nVidia: Please open source the legacy nVidia video drivers Posted Jul 27, 2006 8:10 UTC (Thu) by pointwood (guest, #2814) [Link] The problem is that there the number of "high performance 3D" video cards with open source drivers is around 0. In general there are only 2 manufacturers: NVIDIA and ATI. They both create only proprietary, unethical and illegal drivers. See http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/ols_2006_keynote.html for more insight in that regard.
Open letter to nVidia: Please open source the legacy nVidia video drivers Posted Jul 12, 2007 23:14 UTC (Thu) by sayler (subscriber, #3164) [Link] "They both create only proprietary, unethical and illegal drivers. See http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/ols_2006_keynote.html for more insight in that regard."-> quoting "That's it, it is very simple. I've had the misfortune of talking to a lot of different IP lawyers over the years about this topic, and every one that I've talked to all agree that there is no way that anyone can create a Linux kernel module, today, that can be closed source. It just violates the GPL due to fun things like derivative works and linking and other stuff. Again, it's very simple."
Greg K-H keeps saying this, and I don't think it's at all that clear cut. If he wants a counterexample, I know a very nice open-source friendly lawyer who disagrees.
I agree that closed-source drivers are counter-productive, ugly, and obnoxious, though.
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