http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2007/01/06/nouveau-project-fund/ Blog about geeky stuff Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:48:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2007/01/06/nouveau-project-fund/#comment-38 Anonymous Sat, 06 Jan 2007 21:24:25 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2007/01/06/nouveau-project-fund/#comment-38 Thank you Richard. Though note we are not paying for development, we are merely saying thank you to the developers for taking on a task no major vendor has wanted to support. If we want freedom we sometimes have to realise that it's not zero cost and we can't just sit back and whine about the fact that Red Hat/Canonical/Novell/etc. make money from Linux and as such should pay for our freedom to be ensured. I think it is entirely possible as a proof of concept, if it succeeds I have a hope that other people will band together to show their reverence for the benefits of freedom. I don't even own an nvidia card but I understand that they make up 50% of our market (MacSlow' poll showed us tht much) if we want a high impact first move, nvidia is it. Take the hubla over Fedora Legacy closing down, the people who want this clearly need to show their love for such a project to make it interesting to develop for some people. What if every minor webhost who uses Fedora (and there are a lot) banded together and paid for one fulltime employee to do this, how much would that cost per month per vendor.. would it be feasble. I surely think it would be. Thank you Richard. Though note we are not paying for development, we are merely saying thank you to the developers for taking on a task no major vendor has wanted to support. If we want freedom we sometimes have to realise that it's not zero cost and we can't just sit back and whine about the fact that Red Hat/Canonical/Novell/etc. make money from Linux and as such should pay for our freedom to be ensured. I think it is entirely possible as a proof of concept, if it succeeds I have a hope that other people will band together to show their reverence for the benefits of freedom. I don't even own an nvidia card but I understand that they make up 50% of our market (MacSlow' poll showed us tht much) if we want a high impact first move, nvidia is it. Take the hubla over Fedora Legacy closing down, the people who want this clearly need to show their love for such a project to make it interesting to develop for some people. What if every minor webhost who uses Fedora (and there are a lot) banded together and paid for one fulltime employee to do this, how much would that cost per month per vendor.. would it be feasble. I surely think it would be.

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