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Recently, development has picked up again though. They basically surrendered and now use the proprietary blob. The Mesa driver supports Vulkan 1.3 and Zink will
by samus 3y ago
Recently, development has picked up again though. They basically surrendered and now use the proprietary blob. The Mesa driver supports Vulkan 1.3 and Zink will be used for OpenGL going forward. Now on to more performance optimization and maybe bringing up some of the other proprietary IP blocks...
- salawat 3y agoRealistically, all that means is that Nouveau is giving in to the death of rights of First Sale, which is a fight I'm not willing to give up on fighting for yet even if every deep pocketed interest and it's sister seems to be swinging that way.
- samus 3y agoI don't completely get your point I fear. Using the blob is simply accepting the fact that the cards are hamstrung without it. They won that round. Let's hope that AMD and Intel eventually get it together and come up with products that can slowly erode Nvidia's moat.
- anticensor 3y agoFirst sale is not a thing in my country. Resale defaults to forbidden, and when allowed by original creator, is simply subject to the same royalty and licence protections as initial sale of the copyrighted work. Clean room reverse engineering is however allowed.
- gpderetta 3y agoInteresting, which country? edit: Never mind.
- anticensor 3y agoMy home country, Turkey. We also have a vignette system for books (books are an exception to the resale royalties, as long as resold copies bear the vignette; never-sold works and school textbooks are exempt from the vignette system) and compulsory registration for video games.