[PD-ot] pledge driver for free nvidia driver

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I figure this must be of interest to a number of people around here:

http://www.pledgebank.com/nouveaudriver

"For the longest time nvidia have failed to provide specifications  
for their hardware or a working free accelerated 3d driver for  
inclusion with X.org. Thus leaving the many users of their videocards  
on popular UN*X systems such as Linux with only the option of using a  
2d only driver or using nvidia' notorious proprietary driver.

With the advent of technological improvements to the underlying  
system to allow desktop effects this leaves a great number of users  
out in the cold. A project does exists to reverse engineer a driver  
for the existing nvidia cards, however this is a hard task which will  
require many man hours to complete. Thus the aim to present the  
Nouveau team with this no strings attached donation of at least  
$10.000 USD to further their nobel effort in developing this driver."

.hc

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