So- NVIDIA is coming around to free software?

I'll start by saying I haven't had the chance tread these articles yet although a post elsewhere suggests NVIDIA is reacting to Linus's recent criticism by releasing code and documentation. I suspect this is NVIDIA pulling an AMD. For those who aren't aware AMD released some code/documentation although not enough to give us a free driver. As a result purely free distributions are still stuck without any support for AMD's graphics chipsets. Writing an "free driver" around a non-free component is what we call "open source" in my book.

Now just imagine what would happen if the larger GNU/Linux community put up a real fight!

Here are the articles/info:

http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE5MDk

If this move is more than a PR stunt and NVIDIA's current generation chipsets get support under a free software driver we will start offering notebooks with the companies graphics chipsets.

I won't get my hopes high as this won't be the first time a company has made promises or suggestions not delivered.