Originally posted by vegabook
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Is no secret that our favorite closed source graphics mafia (as they are known in the AAA gaming code world) do many things with their drivers, and one of them is artificially optimize games for their hardware, for a fair price, and believe me when i say nvidia as a bussiness colective, HATES open source culture, since they cannot monetize it for now (The nvidia linux drivers exists only because there are big players with big money that uses linux as their default platform, and nvidia support directly to them, they just publishes the resulting driver, that shares most of the windows code). Also these guys invest quite an ammount of resources and money intro Research and Development for their video cards, and these will never be open source. (or at least not until the actual management (CEO included), and their open source haters (engineers) are replaced)
Expect every genertion of nvidia chips have more and more safeguards to prevent reverse engineering and illegal reprograming of their chips (done because of open source, and to prevent sales of fake cards with reprogrammed bioses, as some chinese cards were sold some time ago).
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