<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jyavenard@gmail.com">jyavenard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 12 November 2011 15:46, R. G. Newbury <<a href="mailto:newbury@mandamus.org">newbury@mandamus.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> A long and very good analysis of drivers running on NVidia chipsets and<br>
> the hardware itself.<br>
><br>
> The graphics cards covered in this article include the GeForce 6600GT,<br>
> 8400GS, 8500GT, 8600GT, 8600GTS, 8800GT, 9500GT, 9800GT, 9800GTX, GT<br>
> 220, GT 240, GTX 460, GT 520, and GTX 550 Ti.<br>
><br>
> At Phoronix, of course.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nouveau_comp_2011&num=1" target="_blank">http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nouveau_comp_2011&num=1</a><br>
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</div>It really makes you wonder why some people waste their time to reverse<br>
engineer something available for free to end up with something<br>
half-baked that is nowhere near as good as the original...<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>Because they can? :) Or because they want to understand their hardware better? Then there's the whole free as in speech vs free as in beer argument.<br>