[Gllug] Linux graphics card

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 13:13, Tethys wrote:
> Christian Smith writes:
> 
> >To be fair to the likes of NVidia, they probably have a lot of cross
> >licensed code in the drivers which would prohibit them from open sourcing
> >the drivers in a useful way. They are also bound by license agreements.
> 
> Nope, they've already claimed that they have full rights to their source
> code, and could release it if they chose to do so. But they don't because
> they believe it would lose them their competitive advantage[1].

And lets not forget the original removal of the nVidia drivers from the
XFree86 source tree. At the 11th hour before the Xfree86 release (3.3?)
nVidia replaced their driver code in CVS with deliberately obfuscated
source. The XFree86 guys refused to ship it, and gave nVidia the choice
of removing the code, or reverting to the previous version. They removed
the code, and have done pretty much nothing for the community since,
AFAIK.

Mike.

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