From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 17 03:50:36 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6387B16A419 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:50:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unga888@yahoo.com) Received: from web57012.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web57012.mail.re3.yahoo.com [66.196.97.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 130AC13C45A for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:50:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unga888@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 37802 invoked by uid 60001); 17 Nov 2007 03:23:54 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=rCbT/MagAdGIcVua9YYxGZoKqjQ7ULzqF2UMo3OFogVEKte0fxZPGUWhlDfYFfUBTR7BF+bxxj9j1QO9NSy1Fj3wJfKwiGmnhB6Iz3I2eWSK+MF2LScBU+iKT9JXjqCp8VFIG8XIEgZHZOBjJmGj/3gdKHzd7UTL2Nr8g7IT998=; X-YMail-OSG: diF6OIkVM1lwKbANPPoi0Ol9ZGbuiVjvX2rkMSd4oAtN_VZpOUgqGaWEf5qVBcvVuH7r6kLYbnOBPGInjTEw5dggQSAETd5KVM1WBneA_SfYb4H8vFPKiAuatbcPPunLl_DquoxHbQkb38k- Received: from [165.21.154.12] by web57012.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:23:54 PST Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:23:54 -0800 (PST) From: Unga To: chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <473E2A13.9070301@u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <702648.37781.qm@web57012.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Cc: Subject: Re: Any hope to have things requested by NVidia in FreeBSD-7? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:50:36 -0000 > >> Hello, > >> > >> This discussion gets over and over again > actually, no the required > >> support is not yet there. There is a wiki page > which denotes what > >> is required to get this going. > >> > >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests > >> > >> If you desperately need this, then consider > funding someone > >> (this has popped up before, it's interesting to > arrange something > >> like this because you need a trustable > intermediating party that > >> can arrange this, the FreeBSD Foundation is > currently not able > >> to do so as far as I can recall); who will do the > work for you > >> or do it yourself. > >> > >> There is currently no other way to get the > support you want. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> remko I wonder why Nvidia does not want to fund to get these features (http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests) implemented in FreeBSD? Its Nvidia financially benefit out of this driver, isn't it? not anybody else, Nvidia is not poor company. Hope Nvidia can easily afford to pay USD5000/- per feature (like Google Summer of codes) to get them implemented. Isn't that worth or too expensive to Nvidia? Already Nvidia is accused of violating GPL for implementing a closed source driver for Linux. How much will cost to Nvidia if somebody challenge the legality of the Linux driver? If Nvidia is not aware of that they financially benefit and the probable legal cost for violating GPL, isn't that the freebsdfoundation should make them aware of these issues and attract them to fund. Regards Unga ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/