Open Letter For Open Drivers To NVIDIA

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Open Letter For Open Drivers To NVIDIA

For those interested in seeing official open-source support from NVIDIA or open specifications, there is an open letter for open drivers to NVIDIA at OpenTheBlob.com. With both AMD and Intel now supporting open-source X.Org drivers and releasing specifications/documentation, the community is looking for the same (if not more) from NVIDIA...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NjM2Ng

[yoshi314]

hm not bad. just 19 sigs when i last checked, and now almost 200. seems like there are people who don't like nvidia blob, contrary to my belief.

i'm not eligible for voting, though :]

[Michael]

hm not bad. just 19 sigs when i last checked

Must have just been shortly after it launched then

[deanjo]

YAUNP (yet another useless nvidia petition)

Really, why do people bother? Nvidia knows that the linux community wants them to open up the specs. These petitions never work.

[Regenwald]

michael, do you know _anything_ about nvidia and their "open source strategy"? or are that just rumours that you have heard of?

[Vadi]

I'm a happy nvidia user. But it wouldn't hurt to open things up.

[sloggerKhan]

Well, I just ordered my first nvidia card, mostly because my laptop's ati card has been a bitch. (I'm building a desktop because my laptop seems to have developed overheating problems after about 2.5 years...)

It's going to be a fanless 8600 gt... I'll see how it works out, I guess.

Hence I now have reason to sign this petition.

[Ex-Cyber]

I don't think this can hurt, but even 100,000 end user signatures on this letter/petition still counts less than one signature from an eVGA/Powercolor/Asus/Gigabyte/MSI exec...

[Vadi]

I got an 8600 gt on my laptop from system76. Absolutely no troubles at all so far...

[deanjo]

This has been done many times before.

http://new.petitiononline.com/mod_pe...ned.cgi?nvfoss

http://www.petitiononline.com/hwopennv/petition.html

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/nvidia-petition/

http://www.petitiononline.com/skyos/petition.html

http://www.petitiononline.com/nvppclin/petition.html

and on and on and on........


This petition isn't even blog worthy.