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Unfortunately, the GPL mafia is right, and hardware vendors will continue to abuse their users with proprietary blobs unless they are forced into change.
by thomastjeffery 10y ago
Unfortunately, the GPL mafia is right, and hardware vendors will continue to abuse their users with proprietary blobs unless they are forced into change.
- TheOtherHobbes 10y agoHow long has the GPL Mafia been saying this? Do you see many vendors being forced into change?
- frozenport 10y agoTypically only big vendors can afford not to change
- bonzini 10y agoFor GPUs, AMD is changing and even nVidia is using Nouveau for some chipsets. For non-GPUs, only some WiFi drivers are out-of-tree (Realtek and Broadcom).
- thomastjeffery 10y agoAMD is finally changing. Unfortunately, The amdgpu-pro limbo right now is not ideal... but I am very excited for the future. AMDGPU is already very usable. I remember ~5-10 years of waiting to use my Radeon 9600 with a recent kernel until the free Radeon driver was finally up to snuff. Catalyst and fglrx were awful. Proprietary drivers just don't make sense. They are practically unmaintainable.