"Michael J. Schweppe" wrote: > Lucas Vogel wrote: > >>From: "Bob Cober" > >>Subject: Re: 3D card Recommendations > >>NVidia's drivers are closed source.... :-( > >... > >>Nvidia's drivers are cool because one driver works with all > >>chips. Only problem is theyre closed source.... > >Pardon my ranting, but why is the fact that their drivers are closed source > >make it a 'problem' ??? I don't understand why that constitues a 'problem'. > In one of the many HOWTO's I've read this topic was discussed in that > NVidia is said to use intellectual property owned by others, thereby > they are not at liberity to release the code. > NVidia is also created [according to the same document] with helping > support the implementation of OpenGL. > Mike I knew there was something I was forgetting about nVidia's drivers. Thanks for mentioning it, Mike. I wonder how hard they're pushing those other sources to let them release the driver in toto (en toto?).