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Nvidia Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over Vista Drivers
Cocoshimmy writes "Nvidia is facing a class action lawsuit for false advertising by not providing stable working drivers for Vista. Nvidia has been accused of closing threads on Nvidia's forum and banning users that request a response from Nvidia, post that their Nvidia hardware does not work under Vista, post that Nvidia software does not work under Vista, post that Nvidia is guilty of false advertising, or threaten to sue Nvidia. Several disgruntled users have set up their own site for discussing their legal options."
No open source drivers, no working Vista drivers, ATI bought by AMD and Intel ramping up development of their own high-end graphics chips. Nvidia are left powerless, trying to anti-alias the writing on the wall and choking on their oh-so-fucking-precious "IP". Slashdot confirms, NVidia are dying.
Go away -- We're not interested in your non-solution.
Maybe someone at Microsoft should work on porting the Linux nvidia drivers to Vista. The work well on Linux, so maybe the drivers can be "reverse engineered" to work with Vista.
Na, they will not do that. Two problems, M$ idiots who can read C and second, M$ is engineered to not work with standards and other systems. In fact, most of their engineering and R&D is spend on how to let M$ marginally operate with standards and yet not let standards operate with them.
My Scotch sits on my Vista CD, makes a good coaster, An X2 rocks with Linux!
As a good Slashdotter, I blame The Jew Puppet George W. Bu$Hitler Chimpy McHaliburtin
I don't claim to have any information about anything regarding this debacle, but it seems to me like it's just another example of whiney little twits trying to extort money/fame/god-knows-what from NVidia. The truth is that most "false advertising" claims are really "ignorant customer" claims, and are promptly quashed. The fact that someone can whip out their 9 dollars and set up a web site does not in any way prove that they are the poor innocent victim they claim to be.
So your shiny new video card doesn't have fully-accelerated drivers for Vista, boo hoo. The reality is, when you bought the card, you were running Windows XP, and the thing worked just fine. No one held a gun to your head, forcing you to upgrade to Vista at 8:01 a.m. on release day. In fact, if you're a gamer at all, you're probably holding back for a while because you know Vista breaks compatibility with lots of software right now, especially the kind of half-assed twitchy hackjob code cesspools that litter the world of game development.
So it might take another week before decent Vista drivers are ready for primetime, big deal. You wanna sue NVidia ? On what grounds, "False advertising" you say ? Well not quite, you see, the product is functioning as advertised. They offer no warranty, express or implied, regarding the performance of the product, beyond the fact that it will display computer graphics. That's something it can do just fine with the naked SVGA driver.
What, you didn't read the EULA when you installed the product ? And yet you claim to know the letter of the law so well that you are convinced you have a solid case against a company who sold you a perfectly good product, and whose functionality has been negatively impacted solely by your foolish actions ? Go ahead, knock yourself out. And let me know when your case airs on Judge Judy, I don't wanna miss it.
-Billco, Fnarg.com
Wow, you are like every single idiot on Slashdot rolled up into one person.