Re: Nvidia, Intel, and clout

From: Bill Gradwohl (bill_at_ycc.com)
Date: 11/23/04

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    Bill G wrote:

    >I suspect Nvidia is about as likely to open source its 3D code as
    >Microsoft is to open source Windows, perhaps less.
    >
    Actually, I don't care if they have open source, closed source, or no
    source. How about them recognizing that Fedora Core, Suse, etc needs to
    be supported and they compile a binary at their location and give it to
    the Fedora Project, Suse, etc to include with the distro to have the
    installer recognize it.

    Or, if that is sacrilege to the Linux developers, how about just
    distributing a working binary on the CD they ship along with their
    products that supports Fedora, Suse, etc specifically, along with the
    various Windows flavors. They could have a working relationship with the
    major distros to regression test new kernels, etc against a driver set
    that the manufacturer supplies.

    While on this topic, the same approach should be applied to laptop
    makers, wireless card makers, and other hardware purveyors to get them
    to recognize that the world isn't just Windows. If Fedora, Suse, etc got
    together to issue a press release aimed at trying to get the
    manufactureres to pay attention, if nothing else the marketplace would
    be put on notice to shun certain vendors products due to poor support,
    and help the end users who many times realize they have a problem AFTER
    they've innocently purchased a problematic product.

    A bit of militancy for the cause is what I'm suggesting from the folks
    that have the clout to perhaps alter behavior. 

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