Re: [Trisquel-users] Stallman trying to derail Linux adoption once again

[david]

Oh and I wanted to point out again that I am right in regard to commercial  
gaming support leads to better drivers for everyone. Here is a blurb:Well,  
you can read it that way... or you can read this post from the guys that work  
on the intel free driver, that got invited to work with the people at  
Valve:http://www.paranormal-entertainment.com/idr/blog/posts/2012-07-19T18%3A54%3A37Z-The_zombies_cometh/Excerpt:These  
have been a lot easier to diagnose on L4D2 because we have access to their  
source code. Being able to take a profile that shows times in the driver and  
in the application makes a world of difference. Being able to tweak little  
things in the app (what happens if I do this...) is also helpful for  
diagnosing performance problems. Eric has already started landing patches for  
L4D2 performance, and there will be many more over the coming weeks.The funny  
thing is Valve guys say the same thing about drivers. There were a couple  
times where we felt like they were trying to convince us that open source  
drivers are a good idea. We had to remind them that they were preaching to  
the choir. :) Their problem with closed drivers (on all platforms) is that  
it's such a blackbox that they have to play guess-and-check games. There's no  
way for them to know how changing a particular setting will affect the  
performance. If performance gets worse, they have no way to know why. If they  
can see where time is going in the driver, they can make much more educated  
guesses.So... having access to the source code from a game makes easier the  
work of free drivers' developers and viceversa... yeah, exactly the same  
thing you said!