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Open nVidia Linux Driver Pledge Nearly Complete
Ciarán Mooney writes to let us know that the Pledgebank drive to raise $10,000 for Project Nouvaeu is almost complete — at this moment it needs only 196 more people to sign up. Project Nouveau aims to provide open source 3D acceleration for nVidia cards. The drive was started by David Nielsen, whose blog explains what he hopes will happen.
[...] The pledge mentioned is however not supported by our project. We currently don't need any money and the person who set it up is not connected to our project.
Congratulations to everyone who pledged to throw money at something that doesn't need any.
In fairness, the Nouveau guys (Heh, I hadn't grasped the name before but that's fairly clever...) aren't asking for money, say they don't need the $10K and make it clear that they're not expecting to have a reliable driver for the Fedora 7 release. The hype isn't their fault and I look forward to seeing what they come up with.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
According to NVIDIA, there is no demand at all for free software drivers for NVIDIA hardware.