Hans, sorry for the private post. I repost it to the list. On 4/18/06, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Agreed. I have stated before on this list and others my displeasure with people who can never stop complaining about things note being completely free/open. Like the nVidia and ATI drivers. We know they can't opensource the drivers, but still we keep on bitching and moaning about it.
Hans
I do agree that they can not open source the drivers, as some of the code is licensed from other vendors, etc. But this do not mean they can not release some documentation so an OSS driver can be created. They can limit this to older (more than 6 months) cards. But it is ridiculous to say that if they release the documentation, it's going to benefit the competitors. The competitors already have the resources to reverse engineer the product and to get what they need. -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)