Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 22:02 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
nVidia themselves are doing more work for the Linux version since they
can't count on a stable interface.
From what I've seen of the Linux stance on this, their attitude (which
I don't necessarily disagree with) was: You make your device driver or
hardware stable, and we'll deal with keeping our kernel working with it.
They've never offered that as equals across a stable interface and
instead demand to own the source. From the other side it comes across
more like an extortion demand: give us your source or we'll keep
breaking the interface until you give up. I think ATI may have given
up. Nvidia claims they can't because of legal issues with third party
code - and in any case they should have the right to control their own
work without having their customers shot in the feet if they want to try
Linux.
The one thing I dislike, compared to the BSD notion, is stuffing
everything into the kernel.
They can't demand to control it otherwise.
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Les Mikesell
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