Why graphics drivers are proprietary

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Tuesday, 2. October 2012. 20.56.34 Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> 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. :-/

That is one of the features of civilization based on capitalism --- the target 
is to gain most money, and to make life miserable for the competition. The 
actual needs of the end-users are completely irrelevant, as long as your 
product sells more than the competitor's product. ;-)

Best, :-)
Marko