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Open Source Video Card Drivers

384 points posted to Monitors and Displays by meffie 02/20/07

Sell machines with video adaptors that have open source drivers, not proprietary binary blobs.

Please impress the importance to ATI to publish specifications for their hardware.

mfedyk
03/15/07		 The only large manufacturer of video cards with open source drivers is Intel. The others (like nVidia, ATI, VIA, SIS and Trident) are being reversed engineered at the moment. That leaves out all AMD systems since Intel doesn't make add-in cards.

No vote from me. This is just impractical.
jmxz
Apr 29		 IIRC, ATI opened their hardware specs as this Idea suggested.

The open source nVidia drivers are making good progress (both the 2d and the 3d one).

Sounds to me like like this one's In Progress.
phubert
Jun 23		 Kernel Driver Statement

Position Statement on Linux Kernel Modules

June 2008

We, the undersigned Linux kernel developers, consider any closed-source Linux kernel module or driver to be harmful and undesirable. We have repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses, and the greater Linux ecosystem. Such modules negate the openness, stability, flexibility, and maintainability of the Linux development model and shut their users off from the expertise of the Linux community. Vendors that provide closed-source kernel modules force their customers to give up key Linux advantages or choose new vendors. Therefore, in order to take full advantage of the cost savings and shared support benefits open source has to offer, we urge vendors to adopt a policy of supporting their customers on Linux with open-source kernel code. ****

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Kernel_Driver_Statement
 
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