From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 3 11:11:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.velosystems.net (wsip68-15-85-238.oc.oc.cox.net [68.15.85.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F1B137B404 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 11:11:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.crashtestdummy.org (jeeves [192.168.1.6]) by mail.velosystems.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B32812729; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 11:11:11 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: NVIDIA 3D FreeBSD Drivers From: Steve Wingate To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" Cc: "Justin L. Boss" , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" In-Reply-To: <20020303162504.872E8BA03@i8k.babbleon.org> References: <20020303024505.6646337B400@hub.freebsd.org> <20020303011935.S12253@rain.macguire.net> <200203031541.g23Ff7M07946@smtp1.domainit.com> <20020303162504.872E8BA03@i8k.babbleon.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 03 Mar 2002 11:11:29 -0800 Message-Id: <1015182689.4827.8.camel@jeeves.velosystems.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 08:25, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > > I don't think I'm missing your point, I just disagree with it. > > Instead of fighting for FreeBSD I'd rather fight for open source software, > and the nvidia Linux "solution" is to include Linux in their closed-source > world. You want them to include FreeBSD in their closed-source world as > well. > > This seems more like betrayal to the cause than fighting for the cause to me, > and I, for one, am not going to fight for that. > > A petition for them to release their information so that FreeBSD *and* other > O/S's could take advantage of their hardware--*that*, I would support. > > But not this. > I think you are missing the point because until Nvidia gets out of their NDA agreement with whoever they have them with, pushing them to release technology they don't own is pointless. You're trying to pluck the feathers off the chicken before the chicken has hatched. Yes, I'd rather have open source drivers for Nvidia but until we get them I'll gladly settle for Nvidia hiring some BSD developers so they can release binary drivers themselves. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message