[mythtv-users] Nvidia drops support for open source driver

[Greg Oliver]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>> On Friday 26 March 2010 05:11:15 pm Brent Bolin wrote:
>>> http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/03/26/2240250/Nvidia-Drops-Support-Fo
>>> r-Its-Open-Source-Driver _______________________________________________
>>
>> Is this just the Open Source driver? I assume the "binary blob" proprietary
>> driver for Linux will continue?
>>
>> While I'd prefer to see a totally open source driver, I'm not fanatical about
>> it, and I can certainly understand that nVidia would not want to potentially
>> give away information that might aid its competition.
>>
>> As long as the "blob" continues to be available for Linux, I can continue to
>> get hardware acceleration under Linux, and it's "free" (as in beer). I'd even
>> pay a reasonable fee for a Linux driver, though I'm sure I'm in the minority
>> here.
>
> Imagine if they tried that on windows!

Don't get confused, this is the opensource driver.  It sucks!  They
would never opensource the "strengths".