Quoting Marian Hettwer <mh_at_kernel32.de> (from Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:10:56 +0100): > > > 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. More or less they know already. Just have a look at the nVidia forum and count the messages there. Bye, Alexander. -- The PILLSBURY DOUGHBOY is CRYING for an END to BURT REYNOLDS movies!! http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander _at_ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild _at_ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137Received on Wed Dec 19 2007 - 09:02:24 UTC
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