On Thu, 2007-06-09 at 16:55 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > While good, it's still not as good as having proper open-source drivers > supported by the manufacturer as well as the community. > > The Noveau driver project faces the same unfortunate situation with Nvidia as > the OpenOffice folks do when reverse-engineering the MS doc format: there is > nothing stopping Nvidia from making a few "improvements" that will break the > Noveau drivers more-or-less at will. Counterpoint: The community is more strongly motivated to keep the drivers current than the manufacturer. And, given the FOSS community's strong record with reverse-engineering, I doubt that Nvidia will keep ahead of Nouveau for any length of time once the basic drivers are done. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7177 Burnaby, BC, Canada web: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield blog: http://brucebyfield.wordpress.com/
