Frank Cox wrote: > On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:29:09 -0500 > Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Except that the people >> providing the binary do have a reason to care if it works. > > Until they decide that it's time to sell you another card and discontinue their > binary blob for the model that you already have. You mean like when a developer of an opensource project decides he doesn't want or can't continue to support the project and it closes down for lack of others picking up the mantle? Of course nvidia doesn't do what you are suggesting. They have their legacy channel as in: Latest Legacy GPU version (1.0-71xx series): 71.86.01 Latest Legacy GPU version (1.0-96xx series): 96.43.01
