On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:33:26AM -0500, Fred Miller wrote:
On Friday 31 October 2003 11:10 pm, you wrote:
* Fred A. Miller (fmiller@lightlink.com) [031031 19:41]:
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Does that mean they aren't going to in the future?
Since the 8xxx series they haven't released specs to anyone really. They started putting out binary only drivers because nVidia was selling a lot of cards to the Linux crowd and no one seemed to really complain about the binary only drivers. So ATI figure why not..let's do it as well. I don't think either will give out specs to have good 3D drivers written. It's sad really..all that free labor both companies would get.
Quite! Well, one must wonder if MickySoft has a hand in it as well. I guess we'll have to wait a tad longer till Linux has a larger presence on the desktop and it can't be ignored by these meatheads any longer.
Fred
You guys are ridiculous. The reality is that NVidia produces the BEST drivers available for X and OpenGL. The fact they will not open source the drivers is really not a matter for concern. NVidia has stated in the past that they have a rather unique technology that allows drivers to be unified for ALL the chipsets they produce. They don't write the drivers in 'C' or some other common lanquage. They have some proprietary system. Sure with the specs one might be able to write some drivers in 'C' or whatever. But do you really think that an outsider is likely to produce better drivers than NVidia does? Now of course some companies drivers suck and they could be improved upon. However, NVidias probably are nearly as good as they can get for X. -Jim-