the reason they arent open sourcing is that they are (justifiably) afraid that ATI will have a look at their driver interface to the card, then they (ATI) can figure out the current wekneses of NVIDIA cards and improve there ATI's based on that. Its not that they dont like the linux community, if that is the case they wouldnt even bother about releasing even a closed source driver.
Now I definitely know u are nvidia employee, but nevertheless did u hear about "reverse engineering"?
It's not a problem to disassemble the "super fantastic" nvidia driver and spy the "ultra top" secret inside. And if some company is very interested, they does it already. But what for u need to plagiate driver if u have different HW ?
I would say nvidia is worry about the same thing as microshit. If they open the sources, a lot of programmers will die. 50% will die on terrible smile disease reading it. 50% will catch an infarct, if they recognize their Open source code, which was stolen and diletantly used.
Just get realistic and tell me does nvidia make a profit by writing a driver for linux, no way at all, the windows market for nvidia cards is much greater than the linux desktop market which is very small. So they
For sure they earn money from it, if not today, they are just looking forward. Who needs a card without driver ? Me sure not !
are doing a service and if you dont like what they are producing then instead of grumbling just use any other driver you like.
Even if they open sourced it, it would probablky take years for people to
figure out how the code works, remember that 3d cards are really rocket
science.
U must be very well informed, have u got actions of nvidia? Remember, intel declared 386 cpu so sophisticated, nobody in the world can clone it. Few months later it was cloned in East Germany. I am sure next cpus are clonable as well. And if it is really true, than progress can be achieved only by opening the sources, 'cause no company has so big programmer's power as linux has.
noro
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