!! NVIDIA WORKS !!!

Christopher A. Williams chriswfedora at cawllc.com
Sat Oct 16 00:28:27 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 16:49 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> > But the two camps can - and should - at least be expected to "play
> > nicely" with each other. The rules of engagement between the two could
> > be similar to when two proprietary software companies collaborate while
> > each keeps their own code closed from the other.
> 
>  From what I have seen there is good interaction between the X.org group 
> and NVIDIA so I am not losing any sleep over the lack of collaboration. 
> I'm sure if the suits at NVIDIA could be convinced they wouldn't lose 
> money from producing an open source driver, we would have one.
> 
> P.S. Good discussion, Christopher. I agree with all of your points.
> 
> P.P.S. The X group also helped fix a VBE bug in F14 that affected many 
> projects, including VirtualBox. Some debugging that helped pinpoint the 
> issue came from Frank @ Sun (Oracle).

Thanks! And I wasn't aware of those gems of info. Nice to know some of
us are working together quite well.

Chris

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