nvidia and FC2

[Aaron Matteson]

Rui Miguel Seabra became daring and sent these 2.4K bytes,
> On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 07:11 -0500, dalen wrote:
> > Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 10:09 +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
> > >>>Ask NVIDIA, they're the only one entity who can help you.
> > > 
> > > No, they don't want to cooperate with the community of NVIDIA cards'
> > > users.
> > Nvidia does cooperate with nvidia card users by providing drivers for 
> > linux/windows/etc.  The issue of binary -vs- gpl drivers is independent 
> > of the issue of cooperation.
> 
> No it's not. Whith binary only drivers, they're your master.
> They even IMPOSE macrovision on your computer.
> 
> With Free Software drivers (note: not necessarily GPL) you wouldn't be
> having the troubles there are right now (which are only happening
> _once_again_ although for different technical reasons).

FOSS Zealotry at its finest..

I might suggest you help out this poor underappreciated community by
writing drivers for these cards so we might all be better off.

> >   I for one am glad that nvidia provides 
> > drivers so my kids can play Tux Racer:)  I would rather them provide gpl 
> > drivers, but I respect their business decision.
> 
> You respect a decision that doesn't respect you?
> You do know that respect goes both ways, right?

Respect has nothing to do with drivers or hardware for that matter.

> > I emailed nvidia and asked when a new driver for fc2 would be available 
> > and received the answer below.
> >
> > "We are aware of the poor interaction between our driver
> > and the 4kstack limitation in Fedora Core 2, and hope to release
> > a new driver soon.  I do not have an ETA at this point, though.
> 
> ===>>> So... the poor interaction is due to the "limitation" present in
> Fedora Core 2, how thankful must we be that they so graciously will
> grant some charity... "soon".

It is their charity, they are under no obligation to support linux.
Arguably linux isn't even a desktop contender yet.

I think you need to take a step back and reevaluate your position. The
world doesn't owe you a living and nvidia doesn't owe the FOSS drivers.
The problems with their drivers will be fixed soon, they are fairly
responsive with problems like these.

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