Non-opensource drivers

Jan Claeys lists at janc.be
Sun Nov 26 14:30:54 GMT 2006


Op zondag 26-11-2006 om 01:35 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef John
Nilsson:
> If Nvidia or AMD want their drivers to be installed per default they
> should be forced to either fork Ubuntu and maintain their own distro
> or release some code the community can work with. 

I guess that nVidia & AMD would reply: "if Ubuntu and other open source
operating systems want open source drivers for high-performance graphics
cards, they can design their own open-hardware graphics cards".  Because
at the moment, unfortunately, there is no real alternative for those two
companies in the high-performance GPU market.


-- 
Jan Claeys




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