3D card Recommendations

"Michael J. Schweppe" wrote:
> Lucas Vogel wrote:
> >>From: "Bob Cober" <cplusplus@home.com>
> >>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?).