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I wonder if this has been in the works for years, or if this is a reaction to the recent Lapsus hack.
by the_duke 4y ago
I wonder if this has been in the works for years, or if this is a reaction to the recent Lapsus hack.
- ssl232 4y agoI'd be interested to know too. The hackers purportedly demanded release of the Nvidia drivers as open source: > The LAPSUS$ hacking group, which has taken credit for the breach, had an unusually populist demand: it stated that it wants Nvidia to open source its GPU drivers forever and remove its Ethereum cryptocurrency mining nerf from all Nvidia 30-series GPUs (such as newer models of the RTX 3080) rather than directly asking for cash. [1] [1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/4/22962217/nvidia-hack-lapsus-have-i-been-pwned-email-breach-password https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/4/22962217/nvidia-hack-lapsu...
- StillBored 4y agoThe datacenter focus here probably just means that $$$$ did the talking somewhere. AKA some large customer/former customer/potentially former customer said "open source or else" and they decided that having a couple people clean up, and push the special bits into the firmware/etc was a good way to solve the problem and keep $ALTERNATIVE at bay for the next generation or two.
- evolve2k 4y agoLooking over the GitHub commit history of the two contributors on the repo, I’d say it’s a reaction. These folks look like they’ve barely touched much open source code before now. A planned run up would surely have these folks doing more GitHub based commits even if on very private repos.
- johnny22 4y agoc'mon y'all. read the other threads before commetning. It's not. https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2022/05/11/why-is-the-open-source-driver-release-from-nvidia-so-important-for-linux/ https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2022/05/11/why-is-the-open-so...
- alaricus 4y agoMy money is on the "Steam-Deck Effect".
- shostack 4y agoWhat's that?