Open Source Graphic Card Project Seeks Experts

An anonymous reader writes "Could this dream of many open source developers and users finally happen? A 100% open sourced graphic card with 3D support? Proper 3D card support for OpenBSD, NetBSD and other minority operating systems? A company named Tech Source will try to make it happen. You can download the preliminary specs for the card here (pdf). The project, though a commercial one, wants to become a true community project and encourages experts and everyone who have good ideas to add to the development process to join the mailing list. You can also sign a petition and tell how much you would be willing to pay for the final product."

Comments

Re:False logic

[Reducer2001]

OpenOffice was not built from scratch. It's based on Sun' Star Office. This driver will have no such base.

Oh No!

[bryan986]

I can see it coming, a microsoft gfx card, sigh.

Re:False logic

[justins]

Not only is OOo ready to replace Microsoft Office, it's already a better program. Sure, die-hard Microsoft Office users won't touch it because, gosh, they might have to learn something new, but those people can't be helped anywah.

And this is the attitude of a small, vocal few that insures that open-source software will never be taken very seriously by a large portion of the user community.

By and large people would love to switch to OO. It's free. People in this country shit themselves over stuff that's free, they love it that much. Personally I really want to like OO, first because it's open source and second because it's free.

The problem is that anyone who has done much with Office can sit down with OO and determine in just a few short minutes that they are getting something inferior. Okay, maybe that's not a problem for a lot of people, if they don't miss the features they are losing and they want to save a little money.

So great, they've built a program that appeals to casual users. Some of us need to do stuff, thanks.