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Why do this? Impeding Nvidia's productivity on Linux only harms the Linux community. Yeah yeah, there's some moral argument over licensing and FOSS, but in the
by gavinray 3y ago
Why do this? Impeding Nvidia's productivity on Linux only harms the Linux community.
Yeah yeah, there's some moral argument over licensing and FOSS, but in the spirit of pragmatism sometimes you ought to look the other way.
- version_five 3y agoYeah, yeah This doesn't sound like good faith, but in case it is, it would by pennywise and pound foolish to let them have an exception. In the immediate term better linux drivers would be good, but the precedent that companies don't have to respect GPL would open the doors to linux getting torn apart by big players that want to use it exclusively for their own gain. It would be horrible for the FOSS movement, and we would have traded it for some better drivers.