"While we are grateful that your company provides one of the best closed-source graphics drivers for Linux, it is not without its problems and prevents many users from having a truly free software platform. You have shown an open-source passion in the past when dropping the nforce-net binary blob in favor of the community-spawned forcedeth driver for Ethernet support on your motherboard chipsets. There has been a rumor that you may be developing an open-source strategy for your graphics products, so if that is the case please let us know your true intentions. Even if you were only able to open a subset of your Linux driver, this still would show a sign of solidarity to the free software world.
We stand united under the name OpenTheBlob.com, but realize that legally it may be next to impossible to open-source the binary portion of your graphics driver due to patents and preserving some intellectual property in this competitive market. What we are, however, asking you for is to support the open-source community to the fullest extent possible. The open-source "nv" driver that you provide for X is an abhorrent disaster that is limited to 2D acceleration and doesn't come without its share of limitations and shrouded code. We look to NVIDIA for providing concise programming documentation to willing open-source developers that is not encumbered by Non-Disclosure Agreements or other legal restrictions.
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En gros ils sont d'accord avec toi que c'est une bonne chose que NVidia propose un driver performant sous Linux.
Ce que les développeurs veulent d'ailleurs c'est pas une libération des drivers mais l'ouverture des spécifications nécessaires pour développer un driver libre. C'est pas pareil. Enfin si les gars de NVidia peuvent participer c'est tant mieux.
Après ça NVidia pourra continuer, tout comme ATI/AMD, de développer des drivers fermés. On veut juste les specs! Y a pas d'imposition de licence ici. Au contraire publier les specs serait une forme de respect des clients qui pourront espérer utiliser du matériel NVidia comme ils l'entendent, y compris sur des architectures exotiques non supportées actuellement.
[^] # Re: Mauvaise image de Linux ?
Posté par ndesmoul . En réponse au journal Pour un driver NVIDIA libre .... Évalué à 7.
"While we are grateful that your company provides one of the best closed-source graphics drivers for Linux, it is not without its problems and prevents many users from having a truly free software platform. You have shown an open-source passion in the past when dropping the nforce-net binary blob in favor of the community-spawned forcedeth driver for Ethernet support on your motherboard chipsets. There has been a rumor that you may be developing an open-source strategy for your graphics products, so if that is the case please let us know your true intentions. Even if you were only able to open a subset of your Linux driver, this still would show a sign of solidarity to the free software world.
We stand united under the name OpenTheBlob.com, but realize that legally it may be next to impossible to open-source the binary portion of your graphics driver due to patents and preserving some intellectual property in this competitive market. What we are, however, asking you for is to support the open-source community to the fullest extent possible. The open-source "nv" driver that you provide for X is an abhorrent disaster that is limited to 2D acceleration and doesn't come without its share of limitations and shrouded code. We look to NVIDIA for providing concise programming documentation to willing open-source developers that is not encumbered by Non-Disclosure Agreements or other legal restrictions.
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En gros ils sont d'accord avec toi que c'est une bonne chose que NVidia propose un driver performant sous Linux.
Ce que les développeurs veulent d'ailleurs c'est pas une libération des drivers mais l'ouverture des spécifications nécessaires pour développer un driver libre. C'est pas pareil. Enfin si les gars de NVidia peuvent participer c'est tant mieux.
Après ça NVidia pourra continuer, tout comme ATI/AMD, de développer des drivers fermés. On veut juste les specs! Y a pas d'imposition de licence ici. Au contraire publier les specs serait une forme de respect des clients qui pourront espérer utiliser du matériel NVidia comme ils l'entendent, y compris sur des architectures exotiques non supportées actuellement.