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Cc: Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>, Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>,
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Subject: Re: amd64 NVIDIA support in FreeBSD 7
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"Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> writes:
> I wonder if having a petition signed by a bunch of people would help
> this along, because I believe that amd64 3D accel on nvidia, is life
> or death to PC-BSD in a year or so.

What, exactly, do you think a petition would achieve?  Can a petition
write code?  Can a petition pay somebody to write code?  Petitions may
work in a democracy, but neither nVidia nor FreeBSD is a democracy.

DES
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