Noting this:

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2019/12/20/opening-up-mali-t720/

brings to mind the following thoughts:

  - open source gets to parity, it just take s a while when reverse engineering 
is required

  - once parity is met, superiority in performance, cross platform support and 
stability, are all close on the heels

  - once this is achieved, closed source drivers are no longer competitive

  - at this point, corporations have various incentives/motives to use the 
floss drivers, rather than the old, deficient proprietary drivers (no more 
development/test/etc cost per se)


and finally:

  - so those who cock blocked release of specs (thereby requiring said reverse 
engineering) ought be publicly named and shamed, for the great cost they 
effectively imposed upon the community of floss developers

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