On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
> > > There is about a 50% improvement in the RH 7.1 drivers to the Nvidia
> > > drivers and about a 200% from the RH 6.1 system. I must admit though the
> > > latter is not a fair comparison since it is different hardware.
Nvidia drivers are not free -0- they won't release drivers as
Open Source, they have lagged in releaseing support, and so
have lagged. By supporting them in the market, by buying
their hardware, you reward this 'closed source mentality'
behaviour.
There is no technical reason NOT to open them -- the hardware
is not directly replicable by other vendors. If they have
used libraries which are not re-releasible in source, this too
bneeds to be discouraged.
-- Russ
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