proprietary X drivers bling (Linux.com)

proprietary X drivers bling (Linux.com)

Posted Nov 15, 2006 13:15 UTC (Wed) by arjan (subscriber, #36785)
In reply to: proprietary X drivers bling (Linux.com) by alexl
Parent article: Ubuntu Developer Summit report: X.org improvements, driver controversy, and bling (Linux.com)

I agree with this; as it is already the nouveau project could use a lot more help; the same can be said for many of the wireless drivers.

There are GPL drivers out there for most if not all wireless cards. Some just need a bit of loving to make them work well (but not all that much).
It's the ease of cheaping out that holds all these things back...

and look at it from the other side: why would a vendor open source ANY driver in the future now? What is the advantage for them if their competition can stay closed and get even better support than the open drivers?

This is dangerously going into the direction where Linux will have no open drivers at all soon, at which point the entire development will come to a grinding halt.

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