ATI video comes out of the closet

[GaryCarr]

Microsoft sells software. Evey user of OpenOffice is one less user of MS 
Office. Nvidia sells hardware, and gives the software drivers away for 
free as far as I know.  Linux users of open source drivers cost Nvidia 
nothing, and may represent a hardware sale they would not otherwise have 
gotten. Thus, there is significant motivation for Microsoft to sabotage  
OpenOffice, and none that I can see for Nvidia to do the same to open 
source drivers.

Bruce Byfield wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-09 at 16:55 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
>
>   
>> While good, it's still not as good as having proper open-source drivers
>> supported by the manufacturer as well as the community.
>>
>> The Noveau driver project faces the same unfortunate situation with Nvidia as
>> the OpenOffice folks do when reverse-engineering the MS doc format:  there is
>> nothing stopping Nvidia from making a few "improvements" that will break the
>> Noveau drivers more-or-less at will.
>>     
>
> Counterpoint: The community is more strongly motivated to keep the
> drivers current than the manufacturer. And, given the FOSS community's
> strong record with reverse-engineering, I doubt that Nvidia will keep
> ahead of Nouveau for any length of time once the basic drivers are done.
>   
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