Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 6th Aug 2006 17:30 UTC
Plenty of loud argument has ensued over whether binary-only drivers belong in an operating system based on open source philosophies. David Chisnall examines the reasoning on both sides.
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RE[2]: Starts with flawed argument...
by Cloudy on Mon 7th Aug 2006 21:36
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Yea, I took that as a slap in the face for every coder not working for nvidia.
I think the author was being sarcastic.
But he misses NVIDIA's point. There's more to writing good drivers than having access to specs, no matter how good a programmer you are. Having access to the actual hardware developers gives a driver writer an advantage, especially when the spec is ambiguous, and even the best specs are ambiguous.
You can have the access and not take advantage of it, giving you bad drivers, but you can't take advantage of it if you don't have it.
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2006-06-19
Yea, I took that as a slap in the face for every coder not working for nvidia.
Man the programmers at nvidia should go on strike and demand a 100% pay increase if according to nvidia they have them by the balls that badly.