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Nvidia Reiterates Position on Closed Source Driver (OSnews)Nvidia Reiterates Position on Closed Source Driver (OSnews)Posted Jun 26, 2008 20:16 UTC (Thu) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750)Parent article: Nvidia Reiterates Position on Closed Source Driver (OSnews)
Of course they concentrate on the kernel part of the thing, not mentioning eg. what happened with Fedora 9 when a distribution didn't want to delay progress because a proprietary driver vendor didn't release a driver that supports new X. And the same happens all the time if anyone wants to try out eg. even development trunk of X.org or other software - proprietary drivers break and cannot be fixed. Since they are sure about themselves, or the sound of the letter is that there are zero problems with closed drivers, it'd be fun if they had tried to somehow explain how it's best that distributions choose old software so that NVIDIA's drivers work. I'd really have expected some sort of attitude change from NVIDIA at this point, but interestingly, no.
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Nvidia Reiterates Position on Closed Source Driver (OSnews) Posted Jun 26, 2008 21:21 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link] This sort of announcement is similar to the typical corporate "we have no plans to do X" announcement immediately before doing X. Corporations are not monoliths. Often the faction that controls PR is trying to use it to enforce their preference, and the announcement signals a battle for influence. If you are in a position of substantial purchasing power, you may be able to tip the balance now if you communicate it clearly enough.
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