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Nvidia Reiterates Position on Closed Source Driver (OSnews)Nvidia Reiterates Position on Closed Source Driver (OSnews)Posted Jun 26, 2008 16:59 UTC (Thu) by zooko (subscriber, #2589)In reply to: Nvidia Reiterates Position on Closed Source Driver (OSnews) by drag Parent article: Nvidia Reiterates Position on Closed Source Driver (OSnews)
Wait a minute -- didn't ATI/AMD's openness just *catch up* with Intel? Is there any openness that ATI/AMD are practicing with their graphics hardware that Intel wasn't already practicing for the last couple of years?
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Nvidia Reiterates Position on Closed Source Driver (OSnews) Posted Jun 26, 2008 17:11 UTC (Thu) by jwb (guest, #15467) [Link] ATI released their documentation before Intel. Prior to ATI's specs, the Intel driver was GPL but the only people who had enough documentation to work on it were all Intel employees. Now that both companies have opened up the data sheets, anybody can work on the driver.
Nvidia Reiterates Position on Closed Source Driver (OSnews) Posted Jun 27, 2008 17:49 UTC (Fri) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link] Okay, that's a good point. I agree that releasing hardware specs is an important part of openness. Intel had fully supported, fully open-sourced drivers for years, but didn't have open hardware specs until recently. However, ATI/AMD isn't perfect. They apparently withhold some of those specs in order to protect their DRM schemes, and their strategic plan apparently involves spending their engineering and marketing resources to produce and distribute closed-source drivers to customers in order to support DRM. See this long thread on Phoronix for details: http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7647&... Now, I don't know if Intel does those same things or not. I would like to find out!
Nvidia Reiterates Position on Closed Source Driver (OSnews) Posted Jun 28, 2008 6:13 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] > Now, I don't know if Intel does those same things or not. I would like to find out! They have to if they want to have full multimedia support for Windows Vista. Which is something that they, and their board of directors, is going to want very very much.
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