Wow. OK, that was unexpected. Wonder where that came from.
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Originally posted by Namenlos View Post
? What? I mean Apple is far from good, but miles better than Nvidia. You know about CUPS for example?
CUPS was already under a copyleft licence and widely used and distributed, and with a base of established users and contributors. I'm not sure how Apple fares when you look at projects which originated in house.
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@all an we stop pulling up Apple here that has 0% relevance?
Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostMakes me wonder what nvidia is getting out of all of this. That's a lot of work they put in for something that, to my understanding, isn't specific to their products.
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Originally posted by DanL View Post
No, this is Phoronix. It is a miracle if we can stay on topic for >= 10 replies.
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Originally posted by bug77 View Post
Because?
Just look at AMD: there's practically no community built around the open source driver, the development still falls squarely on the shoulders of people that were building the closed source driver. And this is like ten years after they started their open source effort. What incentive do you think Nvidia has to follow in AMD's steps, considering the outcome so far?
I would love to see a Mesa driver from Nvidia, but let's be realistic: it's not going to happen in the foreseeable future.
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Originally posted by bug77 View Post
They've always eschewed open source whenever possible (it's why they went BSD instead of Linux). CUPS and X were just too entrenched to avoid, impossible to take to closed source, so the only way to contribute was to do it in the open. But that's ok, they can do whatever they want as far as I'm concerned.
Apple has contributed:
Opencl, gcd, webkit, swift, iokit....
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Originally posted by kenjitamura View PostAnd the decision to use an Nvidia or AMD GPU in my next build gets tougher again >.<
Though I'm thinking with Volta not coming out until 2018 I will probably end up settling on Vega.
I'm running a nvidia GTS450 in my main desktop from about 10 years ago now, and it still works with the current closed source nvidia driver.
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