Bill G wrote:
I suspect Nvidia is about as likely to open source its 3D code asActually, I don't care if they have open source, closed source, or no source. How about them recognizing that Fedora Core, Suse, etc needs to be supported and they compile a binary at their location and give it to the Fedora Project, Suse, etc to include with the distro to have the installer recognize it.
Microsoft is to open source Windows, perhaps less.
Or, if that is sacrilege to the Linux developers, how about just distributing a working binary on the CD they ship along with their products that supports Fedora, Suse, etc specifically, along with the various Windows flavors. They could have a working relationship with the major distros to regression test new kernels, etc against a driver set that the manufacturer supplies.
While on this topic, the same approach should be applied to laptop makers, wireless card makers, and other hardware purveyors to get them to recognize that the world isn't just Windows. If Fedora, Suse, etc got together to issue a press release aimed at trying to get the manufactureres to pay attention, if nothing else the marketplace would be put on notice to shun certain vendors products due to poor support, and help the end users who many times realize they have a problem AFTER they've innocently purchased a problematic product.
A bit of militancy for the cause is what I'm suggesting from the folks that have the clout to perhaps alter behavior.
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