Re: FSF anti-Vista campaign

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:04:53 +0100, Stephan Rose wrote:

And even if nVidia would stop releasing drivers for linux, which I see
as extremely unlikely, you can still get documentation for their
processors and write one yourself. Remember, nVidia is a graphics
*processor* manufacturer, not a graphics *card* manufacturer. As such,
they have to make all the necessary documentation available for their
processors that is necessary to write a driver.

Ummm, no they don't. They don't release drivers under the GPL.

Don't believe me? Please post a source for "all the necessary
documentation"...

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"Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".

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