Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:41:05 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GGI Message-ID: <199903101641.IAA04096@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:30:25 -0400." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903101027580.7045-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, David Dawes wrote: > > > For the record, they donated the NeoMagic source. SuSE sponsored the > > Glint (3Dlabs) driver work, with help from Elsa. They have a binary-only > > driver for the Intel i740. They don't have permission to release that > > source though, and I don't know if there will ever be *BSD binaries of > > that (Red Hat is funding the work). > > So...has FreeBSD, Inc jumped in and offered to co-sponsor the > project? If not, why not? Because FreeBSD Inc. doesn't have that kind of money. When it does spend on development, it needs to keep it closely tied to FreeBSD's goals, and you have to admit that 3D graphics aren't really a high-riority server feature. 8) > For that matter, *does* FreeBSD, Inc do anything like that? Yes, when funds are available. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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