michaeljt
December 15th, 2006, 10:36 PM
If postings I have read in various places are to be believed, a lot of people would seriously like to see free drivers for NVidia graphics cards. There is a project (nouveau - nouveau.freedesktop.org) underway to create these. However, I think that if enough people joined together to put some money towards paying someone to work full time on the project it might noticably accelerate it.
I have decided to try an experiment, and create a bounty which anyone interested in these drivers can contribute to. The address is
https://launchpad.net/bounties/free-nvidia-drivers
A hundred contributions of twenty five dollars ought to pay for a week of developer time. Two hundred for two weeks. Someone familiar with the project should be able to make some progress in this time. I am interested to see if how many contributions come.
If you think that this is an interesting idea, tell other people as well!
I have decided to try an experiment, and create a bounty which anyone interested in these drivers can contribute to. The address is
https://launchpad.net/bounties/free-nvidia-drivers
A hundred contributions of twenty five dollars ought to pay for a week of developer time. Two hundred for two weeks. Someone familiar with the project should be able to make some progress in this time. I am interested to see if how many contributions come.
If you think that this is an interesting idea, tell other people as well!