“Some amongst my readers might know of the pledge drive for the
makers of an open source driver implementation for nvidia cards on
pledgebank. What not so many might know is that I started it and
what follows is a story of the motivation, history and the lessons
I learned on the way.“Being a long term user of Free Software and Linux in it’s many
forms. I’ve been using Linux as my only desktop machine 8 years ago
and as such I feel I might have a thing or two reminding me of the
amazing progress and innovation on the Linux desktop over that
time…”
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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