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> what advantage is there these days in Nvidia not open-sourcing the drivers? AMD have demonstrated that trying to do the right thing will get you shit from th
by rodgerd 10y ago
> what advantage is there these days in Nvidia not open-sourcing the drivers?
AMD have demonstrated that trying to do the right thing will get you shit from the maintainers and abuse from bystanders, who will then go and buy Nvidia because it gets a better frame rate.
- wtallis 10y agoAMD's been in the news for trying to half-ass the right thing, and asking the community to lower their standards because AMD is too poor to do the job right.
- antspiders 10y agoI never understand this sentiment: AMD is still putting in effort for a token market (Linux is something like 0.3% of computers if you don't count servers/embedded). Would you rather have them do nothing and leave the cards poorly supported?
- prodigal_erik 10y agoThey're putting in token effort and trying to create an impediment for Linux kernel development even on other hardware. And they were warned months ago that it wasn't going to fly. Having a driver is good, but putting it in-kernel is bad if the kernel devs can't read it and fix it.