On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 15:12 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:52:43PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > Before we go into an all out war, may I suggest what I suggested to the > > said nVidia dev? > > Open -all- the generic code (AKA kernel interfaces, etc) creating a > > fully open driver and push all the NDA'ed stuff into a closed source > > pluggable module. (Which they already have - the nVidia libGL library) > > If you do it right, people will have the choice of using the same open > > source driver: Either when combined with MesaGL (fully open source) or > > when combined with nVidia GL (semi-closed source). > > Sounds like a step in the right direction, if the open source driver > indeed does not require the closed source part for functioning. > This is probably a good time to mention that a large number of the > kernel devlopers consider *any kind of binary-only module* infringing > on their rights and not allowed under the GPL.
To be honest, I don't like fanatics of all kinds and colors. They tend to view their cause as absolute and blow things up. Taking Robin Williams' words in "Good Morning Vietnam": "Some people in the FOSS community are in more dire need of a blowjob than any white man in history" In short, in my view, hopefully someone, somehow will find a way in- between * without starting yet another holly war (against nVidia) which we have no hope to win. (It's much easier for them to stop supporting Linux/BSD completely) * A way that will enable me to play Doom3 and Quake4 on my Opteron box :) > > > Side note: > > Considering the fact that nVidia has full Linux i386, x86-64, BSD i386 > > (x86-64 once it matures) and OpenSolaris support, the FOSS community > > should consider finding means of communicating and/or cooperating with > > nVidia instead of repeating that old "We are saints, so screw you all" > > act. > > I'm all for cooperation. Almost as much as I'm against closed source > drivers. Simple: Don't buy nVidia. The ATI r300 family of GPUs (Radeon 7xxx/8xxx and maybe 9xxxx) is known work nicely with the open source driver. Linux/BSD is all about choice, isn't it? > > Cheers, > Muli Gilboa ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
