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Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View PostThe demand for free drivers and open specs.
Nvidia could get away with being the only major hardware manufacturer with completely closed specs for a while because they were the only ones with reasonable Linux support.
So no, from my point of view, NVidia should not open up anything. It's their hardware, they have the right to market it as they see fit. You're essentially blackmailing here. "Open specs or else..." Where I come from, this is called bigotry.
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostI'm not sure which comment you're referencing, but that doesn't sound quite right. Best guess is that I said something along the lines of "even if we had the whole *nix home market it would not cover the costs of developing an OSS stack comparable to the proprietary driver", or something like that.
Could be
Would you then say that the current team is "profitable"?
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostWhat? Are you saying that the only reason that Core 2 has linux support is because people bought another processor that supported linux?
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostYou assume that we all care about open specs and open drivers
Just the vast majority of those who actually make Linux and software for it. And that's a very unfortunate enemy to have. If you keep showing the middle finger at these people and making their life difficult, they might not rush to help you when you need assistance.
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Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View PostNo, not all of us, of course.
Just the vast majority of those who actually make Linux and software for it. And that's a very unfortunate enemy to have. If you keep showing the middle finger at these people and making their life difficult, they might not rush to help you when you need assistance.
The fact that they keep bothering with desktop Linux and multimedia even though kernel and X.Org don't treat binary drivers as first class citizens is something that I personally value. It's good customer support.
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