I'll start by saying I haven't had the chance tread these articles yet
although a post elsewhere suggests NVIDIA is reacting to Linus's recent
criticism by releasing code and documentation. I suspect this is NVIDIA
pulling an AMD. For those who aren't aware AMD released some
code/documentation although not enough to give us a free driver. As a result
purely free distributions are still stuck without any support for AMD's
graphics chipsets. Writing an "free driver" around a non-free component is
what we call "open source" in my book.
Now just imagine what would happen if the larger GNU/Linux community put up a
real fight!
Here are the articles/info:
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE5MDk
If this move is more than a PR stunt and NVIDIA's current generation chipsets
get support under a free software driver we will start offering notebooks
with the companies graphics chipsets.
I won't get my hopes high as this won't be the first time a company has made
promises or suggestions not delivered.
