On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 01:55:57PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > > > Some might find interest in this ynet item from today: > > http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3560153,00.html
Amazing. Aparantly Intel and NVidia have a total market share of around 150% . And the background for it is well-explained in: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Linux_Graphics_Essay A quote from it: This strategy [of Intel] has been resoundingly successful in that today the best way to get a laptop that will work with Linux involves the simple question "does it have Intel integrated graphics" rather than having to get the graphics specs before purchase and check a variety of sources to see what the support is (or indeed whether it is likely to work at all). Consider that cettain models of laptops must work with Linux pre-installed. No one with a sane mind would put nvidia adapters in them, because it means higher support costs for the Linux customers. > > > > https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Kernel_Driver_Statement > > I read it, > > and I belive that NVidia will never open source their driver, for at > least 1 crucial reason: > > With their drivers, you can do a simple tweak and you can make a low > cost Geforce 8XXX (for example) to a high end Quadro. You can do it > easily today on Windows (no hardware modifications required), and > since the windows and the Linux driver do share (according to rumors) > some parts of code base, opening the code today will basically hurt > their profits. Fine. So nvidia will remain high-end cards. But loose market in the on-board adapters. And that's where the big money is. > > Also, some parts of their drivers, at least what I heard from the > nvidia guys, are parts that nvidia licensed and cannot be reveal > without permission from the licenser. ATI don't seem to have that problem. If NVidia actually want to start supporting free drivers they can provide documentation (pre-released) hardware and maybe even a developer or two to the Nouveau people. But they don't. They want to keep spending precious money on maintianing this inherently buggier and more difficult to install driver. Well, nobody will prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot in Linux. BTW: any news from VIA? They keep annoncing of big code dumps and it seems that nothing really come out of this. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend ================================================================= 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]
