From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 17 04:59:49 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 19A2B16A418 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:59:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.177]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6D0D13C461 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:59:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so4793861pyb for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:59:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=ZDAS2cm6XVGYfVqDBo+R5CjhoI/vYc5JcPFNpMACpV4=; b=a/EkTp9Th6hRDUwF972o5FosFQFdY1YfAGYNsHxzpSv2AJU5CDFDRZHkJP0PdR4+1Z2tL0U80EXFgUIRrWCfcjwdk8N1CPoYExm8edDW+ElxA9+WioUaY2+VIo6oMaNfq9cPA5wWzzbjOm2RMKBAJ3gD9IErQ+Gmk6pqNBfez8g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ksYaTtb3dSaslStR9a/RLUSzUMysD4WtSkwan22i0+1PPZQUv9dPt/f3qAB04vBW+r0lw2EIvVP8+dzR/ClVlUDHXBGcALoA4i0bNuO2wk5gzZoGq+1BwUS/02D7p5zx/F5fbE314tNUHUdZcfEHJ2R52SToGnuZ8eyxJ3nhU14= Received: by 10.65.103.14 with SMTP id f14mr5834680qbm.1195273929131; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:32:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.105.5 with HTTP; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:32:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:32:09 -0500 From: "Aryeh Friedman" To: Unga In-Reply-To: <702648.37781.qm@web57012.mail.re3.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <473E2A13.9070301@u.washington.edu> <702648.37781.qm@web57012.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org 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 04:59:49 -0000 > 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? One really has to wonder because for example I offered to do the whole thing for $1000 (only payable on delivery of completely tested and integrated kernel features in the mainstream 8-current kernel)... I never heard back from them.... to me this a no brainier since it completely risk free for them (if I don't deliver it costs them nothing)