Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:46:03 +0100 | From | Jesper Juhl <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Small PCI core patch |
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On 11/22/05, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 03:11:52PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > > On Monday November 21, jonsmirl@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > 2) Temporarily accept the ugly drivers. Let desktop development > > > continue. Work hard on getting the vendors to see the light and go > > > open source. > > > > I doubt they will see 'the light' for many years without dollar signs > > attached. > > > > A question worth asking is: Who needs whom? Do we (FLOSS community) > > need them (Graphics hardware manufactures) or do they need us? > > Despite growth in Linux on Desktops, I think we need them a lot more > > than they need us. > >... > > Who is going to pay these people to do this work? If you agree with > > the analysis of 'who needs whom', the logical answer is 'us'. > > > > Maybe we need a small consortium of companies with vested interest in > > OSS each ponying up half a million, and use this to employ two teams > > of graphics experts, one of which works within NVidia, and one within > > ATI. I suspect the two companies could be convinced to take on some > > free engineering support, if it was presented the right way. > >... > > There might be a different way that could work if _many_ Linux-related > companies participate: > > Find a graphics card vendor who wants to offer a cheap graphics card > while offering full specs and write an open source driver for this card. >
Or throw resources behind the OpenGraphics project ( http://www.opengraphics.org/ ). Help them out with the hardware specs, help out with the code. Then when the hardware finally arrives, help out by buying and using that hardware. That'll give you a fully Open Source supported graphics card.
> Then start the PR campaign, e.g. press releases and free prominent > notices at the SuSE main page "SuSE recommends ...". > > Yes, this would require a significant joint effort. > > But if successful, it might convince at least one of the two big > graphics cards vendors that there's an (although relatively small) part > of the market they are missing. >
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