Tell Nvidia you DO want free drivers!

Nvidia is once again showing us how much it cares about GNU/Linux users and it seems there is no end to their insolence. This time, Andrew Fear did it:

“It’s so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help,” said Andrew Fear, Nvidia’s software product manager. In addition, customers aren’t asking for open-source drivers, he said.

How about we, the customers, explicitly ask Nvidia to open source their drivers? After all, sending a mail doesn’t take that long, does it? Here are the addresses I found at lwn:

Derek Perez “Director of Public Relations”

dperez@nvidia.com

Andrew Fear “open mouth without thinking department”

afear@nvidia.com

You may also want to sign a petition!