During a round table discussion which took place on the first day of the reunion of the founding partnership Linux kernel developer James Bottomley called, asked the panelists what they most wanted to see on the Linux platform . Among the panelists was Chris DiBona, who is responsible for the open source program for Google, who replied:
I would love to get either NVIDIA and ATI to actually give us the specs on the drivers we want or let's just reverse engineer everything and do it ourselves. I would like to see you guys do that. Because I think that I am just so tired of this conversation and before what we would do is we would just do it. Then people would say oh well there's free drivers out there, more people are using it, we'll open source our drivers so the users will use our driver and at least get the best experience
Will Google ensure that ATI is a little open to the world of open source?. It is well known to everyone that the ATI drivers for Linux are of poor quality, and in that sense, NVidia has light years ahead in adopting a more flexible position toward the Linux community. And all this started when Chris met people NVidia, when occasionally shared a gym.
Google & Open-Source ATI / NVIDIA Drivers (Phoronix)
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