Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:32:09 -0500 From: "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Unga <unga888@yahoo.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any hope to have things requested by NVidia in FreeBSD-7? Message-ID: <bef9a7920711162032m6059e88fjd3d9ea4e9dcb1179@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <702648.37781.qm@web57012.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <473E2A13.9070301@u.washington.edu> <702648.37781.qm@web57012.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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> 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)
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