People who bitch and moan about the binary drivers from NVIDIA, etc. do
not understand 3D at all. They are not being realistic and are caught up
in the quest for their own perfect little world where everything is
free, no one needs to make a buck, and no competitors steal from one
another.
I worked on video compression hardware for a company that produced the
first MPEG-2 digital cable and satellite equipment. A competitor paid an
IT employee to steal a computer and a hard drive - my test station hard
drive in fact - so that they could get a hold of our software and
algorithms. I've also had a rival game developer steal my 3D source code
from a "private" Windows FTP server and use the algorithms and ideas in
their game. Openness does not work in all situations, especially in such
a competitive area. Those who think it should need to get over it and
enter the real world.
I've often wondered about something. What's to stop M$ from taking
sections of Linux code and integrating it directly into their code?
After compiling, how would anyone know?
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