[Gllug] Graphics cards + open source or contributed drivers?

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:38:01PM +0000, Stephen Harker wrote:
> I think one of the reasons Nvidia states for keeping their drivers 
> closed is that they have proprietary code in them that they have licensed 
> from elsewhere which forbids them opening it up. At least that's one of their 
> excuses.

This is rumoured to be bs. The real reason is (``allegedly'') that
they infringe on a number of competitors' patents.

At one point I considered reverse engineering the drivers[*], but it's
too much time and effort, so now I've got another card and I'm selling
my GeForce 4.

Rich.

* See the excellent work done on the EPIA-M MPEG decoder driver,
although in that case VIA were dumb enough to leave in all the
debugging symbols before they shipped it: http://www.ivor.it/cle266/

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