Intel has open-source drivers and freely available specs, ATI has freely available specs and the drivers are progressing nicely. nVidia, now it's your turn to open up.
Intel & AMD went ahead...
breaking X because the kernel updated is a pain, every time
you'll gain a lot by opening your drivers
I bought my hardware 2 years ago and I'm fine with it -it's NVIDIA graphics & eth. However, when buying the next hardware in about two years, my experience tells me to look more into hardware with oss drivers - because as a customer i have the choice and i want hardware to perform BEST (and not to force me for hacks like disabling acpi and so on). Do the step, please.
Both you and your customers will gain a lot through open drivers. Jump out of the crystal-tower and inspire! Good Luck!
Yeap!
why not open it?
thank you with you !!
the nv-driver really needs support from nvidia! the closed-source driver has many bugs (which lead to system freezes on my machine)
Please open it!
It would be wonderfull, to have complete kernel support for all the features. Try to do Xen with an nvidia graphics card and you ccc (configure, compile, curse).
I totally agree, Nvidia should be more open-source friendly.
Closed source drivers are useless.
I'm confident Nvidia can start a process that isolates code for basic operations and can free it from patented and 3rd party code, so Nvidia can submit a basic open source driver to the Gnu/Linux/Xorg community, and reduce their highly optimized driver to mostly a replacement for the 3d libraries. This would benefit everyone - better maintenance and integration for the basic part and still allow Nvidia to publish their highly optimized code for 3d operations, but now as a plugin doing much less, leaving the common standard code open source.
let people expand your code -- or someone else will provide the hardware
I would especially like to have a laptop with nvidia graphics that is fully usable under linux.
Come on!
Opened specs in current days is necessity for every successful hardware company, IMHO.
I bought nVidia-gfx cards cause I knew that they would work on a GNU/Linux-system as well. But if I have to choose from a closed-source-driver and an open-source one, I'll surely take the open-source one (if both are of similar quality, of course ;)).
it would be good news for the linux community and more sells for you :)
I totally agree with the letter.
Hope that we can see NVidia-Open-Source drivers soon =)
At last
Absolutely necassary for reliable drivers
Stop nVidia domination!
every IT-company should do this, not only nvidia!
AMD/Ati has already good OS-Drivers. Nvidia has to do the same thing.
open the blog or i'll buy ati...
nv makes great graphics hardware, please help us developing open source drivers!
I use UBUNTU on a laptop with a nvidia-graphics-card. pleas open your mind to your Users
Open source, the best of both worlds
Last time I bought hardware there were reasonably usable NVIDIA drivers and miserable ATI ones. I chose NVIDIA graphics, and with it NVIDIA motherboard (for Athlon). that might change for my next HW purchase, due this year, as it appears that the graphic driver situation is reversing. NVIDIA, please recognise that you are loosing customers if you don't move ahead on the OSS support front.
AMD released docs, Intel has Open Source drivers! catch up nVidia
driver open
I'll throw out my Nvidia card in change for an ATI model next month because of AMD/ATI's OSS effort. When Nvidia goes OSS I'll be back ready to by NV again, as I've otherwise been very happy with them so far, the binary driver has always been better then ATI's (and still is).