Re: amd64 NVIDIA support in FreeBSD 7

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Marian Hettwer wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:37:07 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no> 
wrote:
> > "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman_at_gmail.com> writes:
> >> I wonder if having a petition signed by a bunch of people would
> >> help this along, because I believe that amd64 3D accel on nvidia,
> >> is life or death to PC-BSD in a year or so.
> >
> > What, exactly, do you think a petition would achieve?  Can a
> > petition write code?  Can a petition pay somebody to write code? 
> > Petitions may work in a democracy, but neither nVidia nor FreeBSD
> > is a democracy.
>
> While this is true (by the way, what is FreeBSD? nVidia is a
> corporation, therefor not a democracy, but what is FreeBSD?), at
> least a petition could show how many users would like to have amd64
> nvidia support for FreeBSD. These numbers could (!) be interesting
> for nvidia. That's what you usually call a "market need" in captilsm
> speak. Although I do have my doubts wether we could show nvidia that
> our need as that big that nvidia would think "hej, wow, what a huge
> market, let's get em" ;-) I believe a better way would be just asking
> nvidia "Hej, how much money do you need to deliver and probably
> maintain a amd64 version of your driver for FreeBSD". Instead of
> signing a petition, users could donate...

FreeBSD is a code-ocracy.

You supply the code you get the votes.
(ish)

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