Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Oct 2009 22:10 UTC, submitted by Michael
"In late August we started asking our readers for any questions they had for NVIDIA about Linux and this graphics company's support of open-source operating systems. Twelve pages worth of questions were accumulated and we finally have the answers to a majority of them. NVIDIA's Andy Ritger, who leads the user-space side of the NVIDIA UNIX Graphics Driver team for workstation, desktop, and notebook GPUs, answered these questions. With that said, there are some great, in-depth technical answers and not the usual marketing speak found in many interviews."
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2006-01-02
Again, NVidia eludes the question why it doesn't release documentation: quote:
"Unfortunately the vast majority of our documentation is created solely for internal distribution. While at some point it may be possible to release some of this information in pubic form it would be quite a monumental effort to go through the vast amounts of internal documents and repurpose them for external consumption."
This is plain nonsense. Here, NVidia is just assuming that a majority of people are gullible and that the rest don't matter. Lame!
If you want to know why it's nonsense, consider that even if they really didn't have any documentation that's fit for a public release, they would still have the obvious possibility of letting a few employees write such documentation from scratch. We don't need all the super top secret features, only give us just as much as AMD/ATI is already giving, that'll do...
Edited 2009-10-20 22:51 UTC