ATI video comes out of the closet
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Sep 7 13:21:46 UTC 2007
Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 22:02 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> nVidia themselves are doing more work for the Linux version since they
>> can't count on a stable interface.
>
> From what I've seen of the Linux stance on this, their attitude (which
> I don't necessarily disagree with) was: You make your device driver or
> hardware stable, and we'll deal with keeping our kernel working with it.
They've never offered that as equals across a stable interface and
instead demand to own the source. From the other side it comes across
more like an extortion demand: give us your source or we'll keep
breaking the interface until you give up. I think ATI may have given
up. Nvidia claims they can't because of legal issues with third party
code - and in any case they should have the right to control their own
work without having their customers shot in the feet if they want to try
Linux.
> The one thing I dislike, compared to the BSD notion, is stuffing
> everything into the kernel.
They can't demand to control it otherwise.
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Les Mikesell
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