An Open Letter To NVIDIA | Linux Today

An Open Letter To NVIDIA

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 3, 2008

“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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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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