"free" drivers would be useless crap. Just think 2 seconds of the _huge_ amount of work needed to develop these drivers (AGP issues; pixel shader compilation, etc). All this is top secret and nvidia will not want to share that source to the world.
Ok, for open-source purists; a framework "free drivers" to build VESA-like application like we did in the last millenia would be nice. But for any 3d accelerated stuff... thats not an option, even with lot of dedicated work; because the tech changes too quickly.
Slashdot Mirror
"free" drivers would be useless crap.
Just think 2 seconds of the _huge_ amount of work needed to develop these drivers (AGP issues; pixel shader compilation, etc). All this is top secret and nvidia will not want to share that source to the world.
Ok, for open-source purists; a framework "free drivers" to build VESA-like application like we did in the last millenia would be nice.
But for any 3d accelerated stuff... thats not an option, even with lot of dedicated work; because the tech changes too quickly.