nVidia is just a company trying to make money on the PC market [LWN.net]

nVidia is just a company trying to make money on the PC market

Posted Jul 20, 2006 16:09 UTC (Thu) by __alex (subscriber, #38036)
In reply to: nVidia is just a company trying to make money on the PC market by etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr
Parent article: Open letter to nVidia: Please open source the legacy nVidia video drivers

You can already use that old video card, you upgrade for the hardware, not the new drivers. I don't
understand how free drivers would make people not want to upgrade to newer, faster, shinier
hardware.

The only thing I can imagine is that there is a lot less difference between their Quadro line of cards
and the GeForce ones than the price tags suggest. There are already mods (both in hardware and
software) that let you convert your standard GeForce card into a Quadro which enables additional
driver features I believe. So I don't see why that would put them off either particularly other than
making that sort of conversion any easier doesn't seem like something they should actively
participate in.

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