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How would that work in NVidia’s case? You buy a card that the company is not allowed to ship in a state where you can actually use it, and then buy a driver fro
by johncolanduoni 6y ago
How would that work in NVidia’s case? You buy a card that the company is not allowed to ship in a state where you can actually use it, and then buy a driver from the other company? I guess that’ll solve the Linux driver issue by tanking NVidia accross all platforms and giving AMD an opportunity to get ahead.
- amelius 6y agoIt would work the same as when you bought an IBM clone in the old days. You couldn't use the hardware without running software from another company (Microsoft's MS-DOS).
- johncolanduoni 6y agoYeah but the IBM clones were only produced after painstaking reverse engineering of the BIOS. So basically nouveau, which already exists, but with much more work put in due to there being a greater upside. Though I think this analogy is a bit strained, for the most part the drivers aren't running on the device you're buying, hence the Linux driver being an issue at all.