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That argument is too broad, because it could be used against /any/ effort to get code into the kernel by a large corp. Linux is no longer in the weak position
by matt4077 10y ago
That argument is too broad, because it could be used against /any/ effort to get code into the kernel by a large corp.
Linux is no longer in the weak position it once was. It has won the war for server market share (at least to a degree where using it has nothing to do with being a "hippy" programmer), and it has lost the desktop war so thoroughly that at this point it really doesn't matter anymore.
In this position, Linux can live without AMD drivers, probably more so than AMD can.
- themaninthedark 10y agoA lot of people are unhappy with Windows 10 and would love to switch. Now if Linux only wants to be a server OS then that is fine but if it wants to try and grow then it does need either AMD or Nvidia. I think that for now Nvidia will continue to do what they have always done(binary blob) but if AMD gains market share by being more open then Nvidia will respond in turn.
- pjmlp 10y agoGNU/Linux will never be anything more than a server or embedded device OS. Anyone that is serious about graphics programming is on Windows and Mac. I learned the hard way that the way that FOSS religion and graphis programming industry don't mix (lost a few job opportunities due to that). As for the movie industry, they basically have heavily customised GNU/Linux workstations, using the workflows they ported from SGI workstations into GNU/Linux.