Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed May 21 06:29:13 UTC 2008


Les Mikesell <lesmikesell <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Was anyone asking you to "support" one of the vendors that actually 
> makes an effort to help Linux users?

They are the one (major GPU) vendor which makes NO effort to support Free 
Software WHATSOEVER. NO source code (except some very old contributions to "nv" 
with no acceleration support, and those are intentionally obfuscated, which is 
blatantly against the spirit of Free Software, a lot of work Nouveau has to do 
is unobfuscating that code), NO specs (whatsoever - AFAIK they don't even 
provide them under an NDA), and repeated confirmation that they DON'T care at 
all about Free Software.

        Kevin Kofler




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