Re: [ros-dev] My attitude

[David Hinz]

Who says, they've got to opensource their drivers?
I think it could be a big help, if they would help us with implementing 
the apis their drivers are úsing, so that their closed-source drivers 
work fine.

Greets,

David Hinz

Alex Buell schrieb:
>   On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Jonathan Andrews wrote:
>  
> > >   What
> > > I'd really like to see are Hardware Manufacturers getting behind 
> > >  us. Realtek, nVIDIA, ATi, Intel, AMD, VIA, etc, could all be 
> > >  approached, and ask for collaboration on writing GPL Drivers 
> > >  (Although nVIDIA is notoriously skeptical about open-source) 
> >  Im sorry, snot came out of my nose laughing when I read this...... If 
> >  you think ANY Manufacturer is going to back an open source windows 
> >  clone when they wont even touch a FreeBSD, let alone a Liux then you 
> >  are not living in the real world.
> >
> >  If you want pure GPL then it is best NOT to contact these people and 
> >  ask, if by some miracle they sent you any data you would probably find 
> >  that you are in breech of NDA if you use it.
> >
> >  Out of your list only VIA will give out data on request, and thats 
> >  only data for devices that don't do multimedia. 
>  
>  One word: DRM. That's why the likes of NVidia won't give out information 
>  on how their devicess works.
>