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[ezst036]

This is the most reasonable thing said. But it is what it is and let's not forget that Red Hat did force Nvidia to drop their closed binary driver, so...

[ezst036]

......aaaaand, full stop.

Last time I looked, the X11 server repository is still there. You could still clone it yourself at any time you...

[ezst036]

Enthusiasts always provide their feedback for free, even Windows has people doing it, and Apple's cult is the same; and those are corporate products who...

[ezst036]

So this does not use the CPU at all? Only OpenCL/graphics and shaders?

[ezst036]

I don't see System76 hurt by this. What they're doing makes every bit of business sense. They have received massive amounts of free bug reporting and...

[ezst036]

MacOS uses CUPS. Their version/build affected too?

[ezst036]

Giving it away for cheap imitators doesn't do brand harm.

McDonalds freely gives away it's "Secret" recipe for big mac sauce online....

[ezst036]

If you need to lock your customers in cages then your product is shit.

Vendor-lock-in is in reality nothing but a digital cage.
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[ezst036]

How come you still haven't forked the X code and done some coding on it?...

[ezst036]

Why is it that everybody wants to maintain Wayland, but nobody wants to maintain X?

[ezst036]

This is the thing that has me wondering.

AMD and Nvidia are charging quite a lot for cards capable of SR-IOV, it is likely cheaper just...

[ezst036]

Probably their onboard, I am not aware that its in the Arc Alchemist PCIe cards....

[ezst036]

It will, just give it some GPU generations.

Likely, AMD will put it in consumer GPUs first, which will then add more pressure on Nvidia....

[ezst036]

I hope to see a Servo based web browser in the future.

[ezst036]

Well past Embrace and firmly into Extend.

[ezst036]

I suspect it will be extraordinarily difficult for _____insert company name here_____ gaming company to explain why their anti-cheat kernel driver qualifies...

[ezst036]

Is it expected that the Nvidia open source driver will have this same header size problem once we get 10-15 generations in?

How does the...

[ezst036]

Have you ever tried committing to coding for X/X11/X.org?

Have you ever coded for Wayland?

My curiosity is this: Which one is...

[ezst036]

One guy paid part time by Qualcomm for Linux doesn't equal as many total developer hours as a small team of people paid a full 40 by Microsoft.
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I don't mind being "the guy". This is great news and also exciting!

The thing of it is, people have expectations. It's been well...