NVIDIA Begins Providing Open-Source 3D Driver Support For GeForce GTX 900 Series (phoronix.com)

Posted by timothy on Monday February 15, 2016 @01:13AM from the sign-this-line-to-acknowledge-delivery dept.

An anonymous reader writes: In late 2014 NVIDIA announced their GPUs would begin requiring signed firmware images before the open-source driver could enable hardware acceleration. That led the Nouveau developers to call the latest GPUs "very open-source unfriendly", but that criticism can now be laid to rest as NVIDIA has finally released the signed firmware and basic open-source driver code. The open-source driver can now move on with its open-source 3D enablement for Maxwell GPUs and the NVIDIA developer is hoping it will be ready for the next kernel cycle (Linux 4.6).

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Re:still a binary blob then? by JackieBrown · 2016-02-15 02:31 · Score: 4, Insightful

I hate what you wrote because I love open-source but I have seen all these complaints before.
Company doesn't open source and they are the devil
Company partially open sources and they are the devil for not opening it all
Company completely open sources and then we hear that they are just trying to get free labor and they are still the devil.