[Nouveau] What is the motivation for choosing nVidia?

[Christian Parpart]

On Saturday 16 June 2007 05:45:59 Louise Hoffman wrote:
> Dear developers
>
> I have just noticed your fantastic work, and I am looking forward to
> send you dumps of my GeForce 6150, when I get vacation in two weeks.
> It is an integrated GPU on my Asus A8N-VM CSM, so I hope it will work.
>
> The reason I post is, I am wondering what the motivation is for doing
> nVidia and not ATi?
>
> I have read the "FAQ:Why are you doing this?", but it doesn't mention
> anything about ATi.
>
> Is nVidia easier to write drivers for, or do you think AMD will
> release specs for their GPU's so it would be a waist for time, or are
> you continuing on ATi, when the nVidia is done, or are ATi GPU's not
> of interest?
>
> Keep up the great work =)

wtf? sorry, I do really like nvidia graphics hardware, just like ati graphics 
hardware users keep using this hardware because they like their vendor "of 
choice* too.

i may be not understand you right, but what's so unclear about the "why"? 
nvidia does great work regarding their hw and linux/unix support, and yet, 
it's closed source, so ppl came together to break this gap by developing 
their own driver. I do certainly and heavily appreciate those guys and can't 
even await in playing wine games like World of Warcraft, running beryl (or 
hopefully the new KDE4's kwin composite) with nouveau sometime soon.

Why are ppl buying green cars when we've already red ones near us? because 
it's taste.

Cheers,
Christian Parpart.
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