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Often it's a mess of third party proprietary dependencies, code owned by subcontractors, etc. e.g. when AMD open sourced AMDVLK, they had to replace the propri
by floatboth 7y ago
Often it's a mess of third party proprietary dependencies, code owned by subcontractors, etc.
e.g. when AMD open sourced AMDVLK, they had to replace the proprietary compiler it was depending on with LLVM. That was an easy one. Many projects are much more deeply intertwined with proprietary crap.
- madez 7y agoUsually the code is not important, just the specification. Data sheets and explanations of how the hardware acts will do, they can keep their secret code.