The reason to focus on them is purely because they provide drivers for other open source operating systems. Sure they're closed source, but as a end user of any system I'd rather have fully supported hardware than the source for alternative (often lesser) drivers. If they opened up the specification it would indeed be a welcome move, but just because they want to protect their information shouldn't be reason enough to avoid their support altogether. I don't mean to play down the work of the Haiku devs, truly their work has been staggering - but I do tend to wince when I read that some random old piece of hardware is now working well. Granted Haiku will be better than pretty much all other OSs at providing a good experience on old machines, but I'd expect 90% of the userbase to be using more modern hardware. Anyway, keep up the good work! I'm anxiously awaiting a realease, and do my best to spread the word about the upcoming OS. Matt 2008/5/28 Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Matt <laceysnr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> If it's merely a driver issue maybe it would be time to approach >> nVidia? > > I'm not sure why we would want to focus on nVidia. All other major > vendors opened up their chip specification, and we should be glad they > did, and support them before thinking about others. > Besides, the performance difference between AMD/ATI and nVidia is > really neglectable (and differs from generation to generation). > > Bye, > Axel. > > >