Originally posted by mSparks
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Section 4.2
There is no money required to sit on the x.org board or the xfree86 board before that. Nvidia never put forward a person to sit on the x.org or xfree86 board. Xfree86 was the same. The reality the complete time of Nvidia existence be it Xfree86 or x.org they have never even put forward a person to attempt to sit on the Xfree86 or X.org board.
Originally posted by mSparks
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Basically the evidence is that Nvidia has had no major interest in control or guiding X11 development or providing funds to X11 development on bare metal. Yes Xwayland we have in fact seen developers from Nvidia serous-ally involved in fact providing code. This is different to Nvidia complete history of interactions with the X11 protocol.
Yes that deep color protocol for HDR from Nvidia at x.org they provide the protocol but zero reference implementation. So the normal we want to implement this in our closed source driver and we want you to rubber stamp the protocol extension. Yes Nvidia did this many times over X11 protocol history. and got away with it many times even that a submitted protocol by X11 standard is meant to have a implementation submitted to the reference implementation. How x.org xserver exploded in size resulting in it needing a major cull was this rule.
mSparks remember out of all the parties making major money from X.org X11 server you look at who has been on the x.org board on that page majority of the parties making the money out of x.org X11 server usage are not present at all. You see a Intel you see AMD you see Orcale... You can get list of everyone who has also attempted to be on that board. The shocking part is fairly much take every company on that page of yours and that covers 99% of all people who ever applied to be on the x.org board or the xfree86 board before that.
There is no fee to come a x.org member either. The rules of x.org means that a company could join a stack members and at the next board vote 100 percent insure they get 2 seats so 1/4 of the vote. With careful planing its really possible for a single company with sub companies to take over the complete x.org board any time they wanted so set x.org direction how ever they like if they are willing to throw enough resources at it.
Nvidia is pure lack of will nothing more with x.org bare metal and xfree86 before it. There has been zero barrier to prevent a party like Nvidia using their wealth to take over if they want to. Yes Nvidia if they wished could set the future direction of X11 protocol development for under 30 thousand dollars of investment(mostly setting up shell companies so they can take 100 percent of the board). In fact I have been at votes for the x.org board where they were failing to get the 8 board members. There have been many times over the existence of x.org where there was zero competition for the seats on the board.
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