As much as I dislike the situation, you can't really blame nvidea.. Microsoft offered them huge wads of cash to design the Xbox internals, there were no other big offers and they could certainly use the cash back then... So they did it and Microsoft are now making Nvidea lots of money... so they feel obliged to do it... keep in mind that that relationship has provided us (or will) with the Nforce motherboard chipset, which if the reports are true, will kill anything else around... If they want to keep the linux crowd happy, they at the very least need to provide binary drivers for every kernel/lib/X version possible... and keep it updated... I hope the same situation doesn't happen with Nforce,, that would be a great shame... If we all emailed them about it, it might make a difference... (can't hurt) still, you can't blame a company for wanting to stop ATI (or others) from taking advantage of the src code, for all we know they may have some really special stuff going on in there, how would be know? noones seen the code.. and we can't blame them for wanting to be sucessful either... They are not a software manufacturer primiarly, they are hardware, and good hardware at that... They just need gentle persuasion... :-) rgds Frank PS As linux groupies, we have to be careful to not be seen as Zealots for abusing everyone who doesn't do exactly what they want... Would you guys be happy if they released drivers for linux in src code that lacked ALL the cool features of the windows version and just provided basic 3d??? I doubt it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of skinky Sent: Sunday, 9 September 2001 5:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] new linux drivers for nvidia cards Version: 1.0-1512 On Sunday 09 September 2001 05:30, Tom Brinkman wrote: [snip] > IMO, this aspect of M$ business practices, not some silly idea of > integrating IE into the Win OS, is M$'s real crime. I hope source > disclosure (API's) is the next focus of DOJ's and EU's remedies for the > M$ monopoly. Then at least, even if vendors like nVidia still won't > provide driver specs and source due to pressure from M$, the info could > be gleaned from M$ source. I'm not holding my breath tho, it'll never > happen. Yeah... most unlikely since Collen Kollar-Kotelly is Gate's best pal ;-) skinky _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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