This sounds like a great idea indeed. There are many questions, I'm sure.
One that comes to mind is:
*Who* would be able to vote?
Luis
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Alex Deucher wrote:
> This proposal comes up periodically on this and other xfree lists, but
> never really goes anywhere. Why not raise money from the open source
> community to fund open source driver development? everything from
> revamping X (ie, speeding up the development of 5.0 features) to adding
> a new Xfree86 3D driver. Not only would this add features we want, it
> would also show HW companies that people don't just care about having
> drivers, they want OPEN SOURCE. They care enough to donate money over
> and above the cost of the hardware to to get open source drivers. I'd
> be willing to take the initiative to get something like this started.
> Just as an example, Blender raised over $100,000 in just 7 weeks to buy
> the rights to the source code. For example we could start with r300
> support and move on to other projects as money and interest permit.
> New projects could be put to a vote. What would be a reasonable cost
> estimate for something like that? $50,000? smaller projects may cost
> less...
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Some features of interest:
> - r300 3D support
> - crtc2 support for i830/45, trident, smi, savage
> - 3d support for other chipsets
> - translucent windows
> - dynamic reconfiguring
> - tv out on more chipsets
> - HW accelerated indirect rendering
> - new opengl extensions
>
>
>
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