From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 3 21:39:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from free.wgops.com (dsl092-002-178.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.2.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D31137B400 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 21:39:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from wgops.com (zop12@dsl092-002-177.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.2.177]) by free.wgops.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g245dD002867 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 21:39:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mloftis@wgops.com) Message-ID: <3C83087E.6020802@wgops.com> Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 21:39:10 -0800 From: Michael Loftis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: NVIDIA 3D FreeBSD Drivers References: <20020303024505.6646337B400@hub.freebsd.org> <20020303082134.91EF2BA03@i8k.babbleon.org> <20020303011935.S12253@rain.macguire.net> <20020303152253.C81DCBA03@i8k.babbleon.org> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------000609030104090807010608" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --------------000609030104090807010608 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit They don't own the entire IP for their hardware, nor the software stuff. It's routine to license stuff like parts of rendering engies these days. Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: >On Sunday 03 March 2002 04:19 am, Benjamin Krueger wrote: > >>* Brian T . Schellenberger (bts@babbleon.org) [020303 00:26]: >> >>>Why not just avoid nvidia entirely? Or fight for public release of the >>>specs instead of trying to get FreeBSD added to the list of "blessed" >>>OS's like Linux and Windows. >>> >>>Avoid proprietary solutions and venders of hardware that are unwilling to >>>work with open-source code. >>> >>Unwilling, or unable? As I've heard, they will not release specs because >>they cannot release specs as per licensing contracts for their technology. >> > >And who is in charge of "their" technology, then? You're saying that they >can't release the specs because they forbid themselves from doing so? I >don't see how *that* excuses anything. > >>This hardly seems like a damnable offense to me, especially considering it >>helps them build excellent hardware. >> > >To each his own. > > --------------000609030104090807010608 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit They don't own the entire IP for their hardware, nor the software stuff.  It's routine to license stuff like parts of rendering engies these days.

Brian T.Schellenberger wrote:
On Sunday 03 March 2002 04:19 am, Benjamin Krueger wrote:
* Brian T . Schellenberger (bts@babbleon.org) [020303 00:26]:
Why not just avoid nvidia entirely?  Or fight for public release of the
specs instead of trying to get FreeBSD added to the list of "blessed"
OS's like Linux and Windows.

Avoid proprietary solutions and venders of hardware that are unwilling to
work  with open-source code.
Unwilling, or unable? As I've heard, they will not release specs because
they cannot release specs as per licensing contracts for their technology.

And who is in charge of "their" technology, then?  You're saying that they 
can't release the specs because they forbid themselves from doing so?  I 
don't see how *that* excuses anything.

This hardly seems like a damnable offense to me, especially considering it
helps them build excellent hardware.

To each his own.



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