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Originally posted by bug77 View PostEh, I've posted this several times, but it fell of deaf ears. Drivers are not open sourced, they are rewritten under an open source license
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Originally posted by mphuZ View PostI think there are a lot of licenses, patents, etc. in the Nvidia's driver. How can they open / rewrite the code?
IMO, the fear that any code would be re-used by the competition is ridiculous, since writing your own from scratch is a lot cheaper and faster than trying to re-adapt other peoples code to work with your equipment.
All that said, and as much as I personally avoid nVidia products when I can, I can't help but feel this is much more of a wayland than nVidia fault. There is a reason X has worked for so long, and I'm really not convinced that wayland is the correct path. Having bits and blobs all over the place isn't really a problem, IMO. It's called being modular. Having everything go through a single stack makes sense when you only have a single unified hardware interface, predictable and standardized. But if you deviate just a little bit from the plan, everything goes crazy.
Maybe I'm getting old, but I like modular solutions. Because once you lock-into something like wayland, you can't lock-out.
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Originally posted by GhostOfFunkS View PostThe vast majority of the users are adopting Wayland through the GNOME stack anyway. What is the problem?
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Originally posted by sarmad View Post
The problem is that people like myself who use an nVidia GPU do not have the option of using Wayland. On top of that, there isn't yet any decent laptops with AMD GPUs to switch to.
So does the Alienware 17 http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-...p/dkcwkblg0722
also you can find many cheaper laptops with the low end AMD GPU's
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Originally posted by AndyChow View PostPrecisely because they have patents, they could open the code and have absolutely zero fear that any other company would use their proprietary technology. If any corporation was so bold as to do so, they could sue them.
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Originally posted by eydee View Post
Tell that all the thousands of people who've been waiting for months to purchase an AMD card, just to find none or at ridiculous prices.
RX580,570, GTX1060,GTX1070 is impossible however.
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