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Well in some case Nvidia drivers are really bad, when it comes to old gpus which do not have got a 3d capable driver for newer Xservers. Newer gpus are much better supported - compared to fglrx they support much more legacy cards with full featured drivers, but of course the development is only done on the latest cards. Sometimes i think that ati prepares for elimiation because they focus so much on oss drivers. In the later future nobody will need gfx cards anyway.
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Originally posted by krazy View PostIgnoring the fact that AMD pays people to work on the open source drivers..
And you can't quite compare GPU driver programming with regular application development. It's very unlikely that someone will be able to easily continue someone else's work here.
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Originally posted by krazy View Posthaven't been helpful[/URL] to the open source community. Of course they're under no obligation to be and are currently doing a stellar job of supporting their product under linux.
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Originally posted by krazy View PostSee the citations.
It's speculation from a set of people that love to give doomsday scenario's.
But if one day nvidia decides there's no money in linux desktop drivers then there's no free alternative and we're all screwed (I've got a nvidia card too).
See Oracle's recent takeover of Sun for example - what's going to happen to OpenOffice or MySQL? Maybe they'll keep supporting them, maybe not. But it doesn't matter so much because they're open source and therefore forkable if someone wants to maintain them.
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostThat's not evidence, that's speculation and still does not justify calling them "evil".
Seriously, don't use wikipedia for "evidence".
I didn't call them evil, but they certainly haven't been helpful to the open source community. Of course they're under no obligation to be and are currently doing a stellar job of supporting their product under linux.
But if one day nvidia decides there's no money in linux desktop drivers then there's no free alternative and we're all screwed (I've got a nvidia card too).
See Oracle's recent takeover of Sun for example - what's going to happen to OpenOffice or MySQL? Maybe they'll keep supporting them, maybe not. But it doesn't matter so much because they're open source and therefore forkable if someone wants to maintain them.
Originally posted by jonnycat26 View PostSo, seriously, I hope NVidia keeps doing what they're doing. Maybe one day ATI will catch up, but for now, it doesn't seem likely.Last edited by krazy; 21 April 2009, 02:03 PM.
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostThat's not evidence, that's speculation and still does not justify calling them "evil".
Seriously, don't use wikipedia for "evidence".
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Originally posted by krazy View PostThere's quite some evidence that says otherwise.
Seriously, don't use wikipedia for "evidence".
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