Sam Clemens wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
John wrote:
There is also a bit of oss snobbery concerning closed source drivers eg Samsung printers and why can't for instance nvidia drivers be maintained surely the give the interface away freely.
If the interface and the specs are freely available, someone will write the driver, I guarantee it. Chances are they're not - at best they're available under a severe NDA with promises of death and destruction if it is violated. The graphics card people tend to be very tightlipped.
And idiotically so.
It's not like there's any great mysteries about how to do graphics.
I suspect the graphics card people think they're making sound business decisions - I wouldn't call it idiotic, maybe just misguided. You're probably right about there being no great mysteries about how to do graphics - the mysteries are now how to do it FAST, and FASTER. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org