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Okay, I clearly don't understand everything going on in this one. Why? There must be something going on that explains why we are letting people get away with br
by sjmm1989 5y ago
Okay, I clearly don't understand everything going on in this one. Why? There must be something going on that explains why we are letting people get away with breaking the rules the rest of us are supposed to be follow. Must be. Why?
Because if I understand anything at all about open source, it's that you don't get to post closed source as if it is open source; even if you try to resort to shenanigans and trickery to get around the rules.
So my question is this. Why are we letting Intel get away with loopholing the rules the rest of us would have to follow? Seems to me the best thing to do here is punish them like the petulant child they are being. Erase their code, and tell them to politely fuck off. Or at least more politely than Linus Torvalds did with Nvidia.
Also, I don't see why letting them put their code up is of any use in the first place if they are just going to do things like this to essentially break it. Like seriously folks, what in the ever living fuck?
If it were up to me, I'd have people hacking them just to show them their place, and putting EVERYTHING up online for all to use. And that would be after doing something like sending evidence of wrong doings to the justice departments of every single nation who wants to take a chew out of them. (of which there are likely many)
Why?
Because the fact we allow companies like Microsoft and Intel to continuously get away with all their bullshit that they keep on trying to pull more bullshit. It's not rocket science folks.
Time to apply the brake to their bullshitmobile and hard.
- Topgamer7 5y ago> If it were up to me, I'd have people hacking them Cut this garbage shit out. Hack on the driver implementation instead. > Because if I understand anything at all about open source, it's that you don't get to post closed source as if it is open source If it was upstreamed into the linux tree, then they have open sourced, with the appropriate license. So the driver is not fully functional, but what they have included could be the building blocks for someone to add the additional functionality. It is a shitty practice, and if you want to drive adoption, this isn't going to do it. At least they didn't make a marketing statement that they're open source purveyors and software saviors.