Petition to nVidia for exemption of its driver’s source code

Lawrenz · 04-25-06, 06:45 AM

The Community of NVIDIA FreeBSD forum demands nVidia to release there driver source code, to make it possible for developers of free operating systems programming decent 3D drivers in the future.

This Petition should also be considered at the same time as an request of all other hardware manufacturers to release the source code of their driver’s.

Respectfully,

Lawrenz · 04-25-06, 06:46 AM

Name Used OS Comment
Matthias Lorenz, FreeBSD 6.1-RC1-i386, Petition Organizer

As a hardware manufacturer I would have nevertheless only one desire: That my product runs as everywhere as possible. A few platforms are officially supported, and who wants drivers for other systems, can write them from the source code themselves.

**MUYA** · 04-25-06, 07:08 AM

No use here. Their source contains NVIDIA's IPs which understandably they don't want to share...least with their competitors. If you want to organize such petitions do so elsewhere and not here. NVIDIA have their own forums please relate your grievences there. These sections are help sections of the nV News forums not anything else.

04-25-06, 06:45 AM	#1
Lawrenz Windows refugee Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 4	Petition to nVidia for exemption of its driver’s source code The Community of NVIDIA FreeBSD forum demands nVidia to release there driver source code, to make it possible for developers of free operating systems programming decent 3D drivers in the future. This Petition should also be considered at the same time as an request of all other hardware manufacturers to release the source code of their driver’s. Respectfully,

04-25-06, 06:46 AM	#2
Lawrenz Windows refugee Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 4	Re: Petition to nVidia for exemption of its driver’s source code Name Used OS Comment Matthias Lorenz, FreeBSD 6.1-RC1-i386, Petition Organizer As a hardware manufacturer I would have nevertheless only one desire: That my product runs as everywhere as possible. A few platforms are officially supported, and who wants drivers for other systems, can write them from the source code themselves.

04-25-06, 07:08 AM	#3
MUYA Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Hong Kong Posts: 6,774	Re: Petition to nVidia for exemption of its driver’s source code No use here. Their source contains NVIDIA's IPs which understandably they don't want to share...least with their competitors. If you want to organize such petitions do so elsewhere and not here. NVIDIA have their own forums please relate your grievences there. These sections are help sections of the nV News forums not anything else. __________________ I5-2500k@4.7GHz - MSI Z77A-GD65 - 4GB X2 A-DATA DDR3 1600 - Corsair H100 - Antec Quatro 850W Gigabyte Windforce X3 GTX 680 OC - Dell 24" IPS Intel 320 300 GB SSD - 1 TB Hitachi HDD - 2x 250 GB WD HDD Corsair K90 - Corsair Venegance 2000 Headset - Razer Naga Epic Corsair 600T Case

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