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Intel GPU drivers are completely open source, are they not? That clearly makes it not impossible, if they cared enough.
by xorcist 10y ago
Intel GPU drivers are completely open source, are they not?
That clearly makes it not impossible, if they cared enough.
- true_religion 10y agoIntel is #1 in the chip technology field though. They are in a special position where it would be suicidal to sue them.
- thomastjeffery 10y agoAbsolutely. AMD is moving strongly in that direction too. This is just one of many sad excuses to continue a moronic, and frankly harmful practice.
- kimixa 10y agoBoth AMD's and Intel's OSS drivers are 'clean room' separate codebases to their internal closed drivers. It may be that they are specifically avoiding some features/rewriting possibly infringing code in these cases. As far as I know, we have yet to have an open driver to get the same performance as their closed windows ones in all cases. There may be reasons behind that.