Nvidia, Intel, and clout

[Bill Gradwohl]

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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Bill Gradwohl
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