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Maybe it won't "officially" help, but knowledge of GPU and proprietary driver internals will still help if you're stuck debugging an issue as it'll allow you to
by Nextgrid 5y ago
Maybe it won't "officially" help, but knowledge of GPU and proprietary driver internals will still help if you're stuck debugging an issue as it'll allow you to focus your search instead of having a complete black box.
Information wants to be free and leaked info will eventually percolate through into the open driver(s) in a subtle way that nobody can prove (or deny) whether it came from the proprietary driver or not, and that's good. Nvidia isn't losing anything here - people are still paying full price for their GPUs and just want to use them on their own terms.
- pabs3 5y agoUsually projects like nouveau ban contributions from folks with knowledge of the proprietary codebase, for eg Wine does that (see the other comment). Their own developers definitely aren't going to look at any leaks.