OpenTheBlob.com - An Open Letter To NVIDIA


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Pavel Ageev

Mifodix

just do it:)

Marcos Suñen

Es necesario todo esto. Ya que aunque no soy un novato en linux. Me ha costado horrores conseguir que funcione el driver privado, asi que la proxima vez comprare un ordenador con AMD. Si la cosa no cambia.

Andrea Zagli

Lorenzo Pistone

ru ubuntu

Emanuele Marchesi

FlashXL

Please, do it :)

Sergey Smolnikov

Heyhey

z

auzuret

Alexey Chernov

I hope it'll be true - "Linux + Nvidia = Enjoy".

cyberp1r8

I just started using Linux Ubuntu myself and am really loving it. As a game developer i'd love the use of nvidia drivers to port our upcoming mmorpg game to the linux world. we're all about open source when we can use it. Consider this signed.

Brandon Captain

I agree with this open letter. (aside from "Intellectual Property" being a horrible word intended to confuse the real issue of trademark, patent, and copyright law.)

Dmitry Chirikov

Christoph Schwerdtfeger

I've always thought of nVidia beeing "more open source" than AMD/ATI because of the better support of graphic cards on Linux. But it seems that times are changing. Would be great if you would open up some parts of the driver!

Sylvain F.DUBOIS

Steven K.

Stefano Pellegrini

Mihail Mezyakov

Open Source is our future

Macq Damien

Pour que mon pc soit enfin 100% libre :-D Please do it !

Sindhudweep Sarkar

Please open up your drivers. I am a long time nvidia customer. I purchased your hardware because of better linux support.

Alexander Kabakov

yes

Mefix

Uttar! This one is for you!

mix

рурун!

Sathyajith Bhat

Brian Shelby

Paolo Grani

Emmanuel Delahaye

Fulvio Venturini

bahler

Peter van Eijk

Faisal Alsagoff

Welcome to Open Source. Feel the love.

Dâniel Fraga

Maria

n01se

pizzaboy

FreeDom!

James Cheezem

Bill Fleming

Sebastien DE BRITO

AmSE

The way is nVidia, but who wants to walk when you can fly? Go, nVidia! Teach us what you can do for the open source community, we also spend money on your chipsets, of course...

Ihor Kaharlichenko

Alejandro Abelenda

Good Idea

Dennis Fiser

P.Sumkin

it will be great thing

Flavio Rava

I've been using nvidia for so long i cann't wait any more.

Jessica Long

Bill Newsome

LAURENT Thierry

open source drivers is only need

Yaroslav Isakov

Give us a freedom!

iceq

^_^

Denis Goncharov

Open Source drivers please! This will bring more benefit to both nVidia and Linux!

ZaZa

Mike Rogers

Open-source it guys!

Giuseppe Fatiguso

Steve Ardern

Morel_arnaud

Pereira Carlos

Zubin Singh Parihar

andrey_krutov

Cedric Mamo

Better graphics support in linux would be a really gr8 thing. Please anyone concerned please take note of this letter

Davide Capodaglio

Akademic

I using Nvidia products several years under Gentoo Linux. But my happiness isn't full without full featured opensource drivers.

Jacques St-onge

Canada Quebec Supporter le logiciel libre S.V.P. Support free software please !

Brian Hellman

Andrey Shevchuk

Brian Dagostino

Its time to step up to bat Nvidia, unless you want to strike out the future of you company.

Nick Gazaloff

Nicola Fioretti

nvdia Driver Open Source now!!!

Jeremy Fein

Anton Frolov

buscher

Nisse Salmi

I really hope to see someday open nvidia drivers

Sylvain Paré

Oualid Khayati

i think that it will be a very good idea to open your code and let the open source community help you to make a good work. i hope that you'll listen to our request ...

Michel Valois

NVIDIA Corporation, 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. You have shown an open-source passion in the past when dropping the nforce-net binary blob in favor of the community-spawned forcedeth driver for Ethernet support on your motherboard chipsets. There has been a rumor that you may be developing an open-source strategy for your graphics products, so if that is the case please let us know your true intentions. Even if you were only able to open a subset of your Linux driver, this still would show a sign of solidarity to the free software world. We stand united under the name OpenTheBlob.com, but realize that legally it may be next to impossible to open-source the binary portion of your graphics driver due to patents and preserving some intellectual property in this competitive market. What we are, however, asking you for is to support the open-source community to the fullest extent possible. The open-source "nv" driver that you provide for X is an abhorrent disaster that is limited to 2D acceleration and doesn't come without its share of limitations and shrouded code. We look to NVIDIA for providing concise programming documentation to willing open-source developers that is not encumbered by Non-Disclosure Agreements or other legal restrictions. There is an interested group of developers at hand that are willing to contribute towards an open 3D NVIDIA driver. The Nouveau developers are committed to these free software ideals to the extent that they have spent years reverse engineering your hardware without ever receiving any funds for this immense work, but rely upon community donations. An official open-source driver could complement your binary driver, in order to provide a better "out of the box" experience on many Linux distributions and satisfying the customers -- including corporate clients -- who mandate open-source software. In a steadfast manner, we request knowing your true commitment to the GNU/Linux and open-source communities. For everyday that you stand by idle, your competitors are continuing to refine their open-source drivers and pushing out more documentation that is better enabling the open-source community. Please let us know what is going on and join the open-source community in this effort. Sincerely, The Undersigned February 29, 2008

aylies christophe

la liberte de choisir

tab

Andrey Sitnik

Free drivers can create more inovations.

Sylvain TENOU

Bertrand

I love linux but I'm still reluctant to switch because of graphic card drivers. Nowadays Linux is a serious alternative to windows, Nvidia should take that alternative into account if they want to remain the leader in the years to come

Luis Fernando Martínez Pérez

Sergio

Open source

Robert de Bock

Nvidia is great, would be greater when open source!

Andreas Tscharner

Menem Carlos Saul

Eugenio Baldi

Keith B.

It's all about freedom to use the operating system that we choose. We would love to see everyone help to make GNU/Linux easier to use. Please help us and help ALL of us to have a greater choice.

Branan Riley

I've always used nVidia because of the better Linux driver support. Once the open-source ATI drivers are usable, I'll probably switch unless there are good open-source nVidia drivers, too.

Dr Lambros Lambrou

bruno

good linux and nvidia

Dmitry Nord

Please, Do iT!!!!

Freddy Mesa

Por favor, necesitamos drivers mas completos. La verdad quiero actualizar mi pc con todo el hardware, mi tarjeta de video es nvidia, pero no se si sera mejor una ATI, porque yo me manejo con Linux, no con Windows. Esta en ustedes, por favor, controladores mas capaces.

Derek Donahue

Please give us open source drivers as it will help to improve the quality of your hardware in different environments.

Lisa G

Beautiful, give us NVIDIA Linux Open-Source! My company wants it!

Rob Butlin

NVIDIA, you owe it to your customers

hadrot

signe pour obtenir des pilotes libres

Alex Kshevetskiy

signed!

GoR

STANDARTS = NVIDIA!

Vincent RENE-CORAIL

Nvidia corp., you've done good work til now, but today, that's not enough anymore. We all need and want free and open source drivers. Please, help us, you CAN do it. It's not so difficult.

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