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NVIDIA Plotting Open-Source Strategy?

phoronix.com — NVIDIA is planning an open-source counterattack against ATI/AMD. Since this past September, AMD has been increasingly open-source friendly with their Novell partnership to deliver the RadeonHD driver and releasing open specifications. We have received information that NVIDIA is reportedly planning an increased open-source presence.

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  • thtroyer, on 01/10/2008, -0/+6This would be amazing.

    Their binary driver isn't bad. It's generally good, actually... but it could be a lot better. I've hit plenty of snags on several machines, and I suspect that many of them could have been prevented (or made less significant) by the driver being open -- things like X being completely borked to temporary incompatibilities with new kernel versions.

    I look forward to seeing what they (eventually) release. Competition is good -- and I'd like to see both ATI and Nvidia able to compete in Linux/Unix markets.
  • schestowitz, on 01/11/2008, -3/+3Brilliant news! NVIDIA would have a lot to win if it goes open source. It would receive patches from the users, not to mention goodwill value.

    I hope the rumours are true. Intel and AMD already do some open source in this area. NVIDIA remains the black sheep (and black box) -- for now.

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