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:An Open Letter To NVIDIA
An Open Letter To NVIDIA
Mar 3, 2008, 13 :45 UTC (11 Talkback[s]) (6776 reads)

"We the GNU/Linux community and the undersigned, kindly request that you, NVIDIA Corporation, increase your efforts in better enabling the open-source community to develop free software drivers for your graphics hardware. Your major competitors in this market, AMD/ATI and Intel, have not only supported the community in open-source driver development efforts but they are now openly releasing hardware programming documentation.

"While we are grateful that your company provides one of the best closed-source graphics drivers for Linux, it is not without its problems and prevents many users from having a truly free software platform..."

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> While we are grateful that your compan ...   Avoid NVidia if you can   
Not Undersigned
Mar 3, 2008, 14:55:09
 
> > While we are grateful that your comp ...   Re: Avoid NVidia if you can   
Matthew Lenz
Mar 3, 2008, 15:22:46
 
Would have *much* *much* more influence  ...   Write a real letter   
jack
Mar 3, 2008, 16:47:20
 
> > While we are grateful that your comp ...   Re: Avoid NVidia if you can   
wsd
Mar 3, 2008, 17:20:26
 
once the drivers are up to speed I will  ...   ATI   
Eric Krejci
Mar 3, 2008, 18:06:26
 
I choose the best tool for the job. In t ...   Re: Avoid NVidia if you can   
Cabal
Mar 3, 2008, 18:07:49
 
> I choose the best tool for the job. In ...   Re: Re: Avoid NVidia if you can   
Tony OBryan
Mar 3, 2008, 18:58:56
 
> Why should I be grateful? They don&#39 ...   Re: Avoid NVidia if you can   
Frank Earl (aka Svartalf)
Mar 3, 2008, 19:22:03
 
Let me see, do I believe in coincidences ...   Do I believe in coincidences?   
Chris
Mar 3, 2008, 22:22:39
 
> Funny...  I could have sworn that they ...   Re: Re: Avoid NVidia if you can   
Not Undersigned
Mar 3, 2008, 23:20:24
 
>nvidia has the best linux drivers of an ...   I have to disagree about their drivers   
Johnny
Mar 4, 2008, 04:43:51
 
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