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I didn't say there's a technical reason, I said they want to keep their source code secret, which to me is a reasonable argument.
by fwxwi 7y ago
I didn't say there's a technical reason, I said they want to keep their source code secret, which to me is a reasonable argument.
- pepemon 7y agoWell then sway maintainer's reason to explicitly deny support for proprietate nvidia driver is a reasonable argument too.
- fwxwi 7y agoDefinitely, it's his software and he can do whatever he wants, and I'm not criticising him, I'm criticising Linux for not offering a stable driver API. As far as I know they don't even want to allow shims like the one Android Treble introduced. It is not a technical decision, it's a political one.
- vertex-four 7y agoRefusing to open source their drivers is not a technical decision, it’s a political one.
- sheepdestroyer 7y agoThere is a technical rationale that should be read to understand kernel dev's PoV : https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...