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And that's a HUGE pitty! I'm not alone when I say that this entire situation is depressing. It harms not only crossplatform success (=xTimes less money than pos
by X4 13y ago
And that's a HUGE pitty! I'm not alone when I say that this entire situation is depressing. It harms not only crossplatform success (=xTimes less money than possible, yes think about it dear Publishers).
So, do you have an idea on howto game it, to get more Hardware vendor support on Linux/Unix to become actually a "real alternative" to the DirectX competitor Microsoft? I don't believe that it's just the license, because amd/nvidia/intel give out their proprietary drivers, but we all know that they still so big time that using them is difficult.
- X4 13y agoI stand by what I think! You can downvote me another 1000 times, if you want, but that doesn't make your anonymous voice heard. Tell us instead why you think this is "so" wrong, sir?
- simcop2387 13y agoActually intel doesn't give out a proprietary driver, at least for new hardware (did they for old?). It's all open source in MESA now. Which is one of the big reasons that mesa has been improving so much lately, they've been pouring developers into it.
- X4 13y agoIt's actually the opposite, Intel gives out their driver for old hardware, but for the recent GMA 500 they didn't yet do that. So you're 'almost' right with Intel[1], but how is that making my entire statement wrong? AMD and Nvidia and many other graphics hardware vendors don't open source their driver, but that is not the main problem. The problem is that they don't care for the Linux/Unix platform enough to make their drivers actually stable or good enough. And yes, that's why I believe that there needs something to be done in order to get Graphics Hardware vendors do a better job with their linux drivers. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_hardware_and_FOSS#Intel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_hardware_and_FOSS#Inte...