El Sábado, 3 de Mayo de 2003 12:00, Sven Luther escribió: > On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 12:36:16PM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: > > Sven Luther wrote: > > >On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 01:58:18PM -0500, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote: > > >>If we're going to get other GNU/Linux user lists involved, we should > > >>be banding together to exert more pressure on nVidia to release specs > > >>to Free Software developers. A binary-only solution is a worse > > >>solution than what we have now. > > > > > >No, this will never happen, do you really think that if we were not able > > >to get docs for the DRI and such up to now, they will sudenly release > > >them for a small bunch of people who should be running macos X even. > > >Also, it is not enough to have the docs, you also need the competent > > >people to write the drivers with it. > > > > Run macos x? How do I do that on my PPC computers? ;-) > > > > (two RS/6k 43p systems, and one AmigaOne G3-SE. no Apple systems) > > > > >Finally, if more and more arches do need support, maybe they will find > > >it after a time that building on all those arches is more of a bother > > >than a benefit, maybe they will give the specs for a free implementation > > >or something. > > > > I agree, though. Just thought the whole "small bunch of people who > > should be running macos x" seemed a little misplaced :-) > > Well, it was voluntary provocative, and i think it most assuredly how > nvidia will think. And anyway, i guess you can count the people running > non mac hardware with nvidia graphic cards on the fingers of a hand, so > this is even less incentive for them. > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther
Here is the petition to put the nforce2 modules under de GNU/GPL : http://www.PetitionOnline.com/nforce2/