Why graphics drivers are proprietary

[Mark LaPierre]

On 10/02/2012 04:18 PM, Alan Evans wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
>> 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. :-/
>
> Not if it helps to sell the competitor's hardware.

Programmers, and corporations for that matter, have the right to decide 
how they choose to distribute their property.  Corporations are people 
too, that is to say they are people banded together for a common 
purpose, and they have to eat too.

Some choose to release their software in open format and then make their 
money from support services.  That model doesn't work well for hardware 
manufacturers.  People get pissed off if their hardware doesn't work. 
It's hard to download a new video card if you get my drift.  Software 
can be readily patched and re-installed with little cost aside from the 
patching.  Can't do that with a $BIG price high end video card.

-- 
     _
    °v°
   /(_)\
    ^ ^  Mark LaPierre
Registerd Linux user No #267004
www.counter.li.org
****