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From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
To: Bob Giesen <BobGiesen@earthlink.net>,
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	Benjamin Krueger <benjamin@macguire.net>
Subject: Re: NVIDIA  3D FreeBSD Drivers
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On Sunday 03 March 2002 11:50 am, Bob Giesen wrote:

.. which also goes to point out
> another positive aspect of vendor-supplied drivers: not having to
> develop those drivers allows FBSD user/developers to spend their time
> on other productive and/or fun pursuits.

The lovely thing about public release of the specs is that FreeBSD developers 
would still be free to pursue other pursuits--the XFree86 folks would write 
the accelerated drivers, and *all* Unixy 386-based systems could use them: 
FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and others that I'm sure are out there that 
I've never heard of.

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