Spawned from the recent multitude of threads on the potential inclusion of proprietary drivers in Feisty I decided it might be a good time to see if the community is willing to put their money where their mouths are when it comes to freedom.
There's an existing project to create a free nvidia driver called Nouveau. However this is a big task and I think they could benefit from some moeny to buy hardware and maybe pay for some development.
Doing a collective pledge would allow us to present the project with an offer of some magnitude which they can then decide to accept or decline - in case they decline it no money is lost.
The target is a mere 1000 pledgers of $10 USD each, just looking at this forum with currently 144,516 active members that is less than 0.7% of that pool who needs to pledge in order to reach that goal. I think that is quite attainable and I do hope people here will feel the same way.
Let's show the world why the open source community is so great to be part of.
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