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AMD embraces open source to take on Nvidia’s GameWorks
- unprepare 11y agorelevant excerpt: >GPUOpen will, when it is published in January, be open source. AMD will use the permissive MIT license, allowing GPUOpen code to be used without any practical restriction in both open and closed source applications, and will publish all code on GitHub.
- mindcrime 11y agoI really want AMD to succeed and continue to remain a strong and viable competitor to both Intel and NVidia. Both because competition is good in the general sense, and - more to the point - because AMD has embraced Open Source to a much greater extent. Well, definitely more than NVidia from what I've seen. Intel do make some OSS contributions, but I think, in general, AMD is still more "OSS friendly". I guess I'm being a little bit sentimental as well. My first PC had an AMD 386DX-40 processor and for many years afterwards I stuck to AMD processors almost exclusively. Definitely during the "build you own machine from parts" years. Now if only it were reasonable to build your own laptop, tablet or smart-phone from components like that... and run any OS you want... sigh
- BrainInAJar 11y agoI wonder if that means the drivers'll work for FreeBSD