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Unfortunately that's not really been the case in practice. It actually can be really hard to avoid writing code which has no potential for undefined...

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All of which would be less clear, considering companies merge to become one; in this case it's splitting so to stock financial people demerging makes...

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Ah well I sure need to login/out every few minutes in a working day.

Seriously, it's what's available and how fast things are when you're...

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Errrr.. cos the conclusion of the multi-vendor joint developer debate, arrived at a consensus to implement GBM?
Ummmm... cos' EGL is additional...

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No this is silly.. NO developer, goes to work for Nvidia, without being very aware of their stance. When you go for a SW job with a high profile company,...

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Look Nvidia blob drives have caused crashes in kernel.. un-debuggable ones. I've found Nivida proprietary drivers a royal PITA..
if I'm going to...

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Nothing except the developers from many companies got together and decided to implement something different....

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Come on, that's so naive.. they stayed out of a multi-vendor open source design .. now they "just want" EGL which allows Vendor encapsulated...

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No they wanted a proprietary world.. seeking to maximise what they felt was their closed source trade-secret proprietary advantage.
They had the...

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Don't kid yourself!! Wayland is happening.. just look at efforts & consideration Fedora are making to make it the distro default!...

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Ummmm.. it was Truman who gave the final go-ahead for the A-bomb. Given the losses to Japanese civilians on Okinawa, a rational argument can be made that...

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This just sounds like an example of the layering mistake anti-pattern to me.
The Wayland client, is meant to be doing the rendering.. it ought to...

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Total BULL!!! Nvidia had ample opportunity to help design suitable general memory management for graphics, instead it has for years and years, been a...

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Well actually taking part in the open source community would be too easy wouldn't it?
Nivida, want a marketing advantage of their secret sauce ...

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No wonder Michael's an X-man who don't sleep.. is on PC all day, geeks out on Linux, and keeps a wife happy!! lol
I'd forgotten that Chernobyl article...