Why graphics drivers are proprietary

[Roberto Ragusa]

On 10/02/2012 03:45 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
> Another factor is that the drivers may contain a lot of clever stuff.  A
> long time back one of the problems raised was that vendor A had the
> better hardware but vendor B the better drivers. Vendor B's product won
> all the benchmarks. If they open sourced it then vendor A would duly have
> borrowed all the software tricks and then won hands down.

So final users would have had the best hardware running the best drivers
(open source too).
This is something which must not be permitted to happen. :-/

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