Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

NVidia and ATI are special in a way because they go through the trouble of making a special glue layer.

Maybe this should be unofficially indicated as the second best choice after releasing the full code. It allows kernel developers not to be API-bounded and allows hardware vendors to hide their supposedly-valuable IP in the binary blob. Meanwhile, the 'open' external layer allows third parties to fix things when the kernel API changes and/or the vendor drops support for the hardware.

I know that this still is not free software, and I am not saying that the external layers of such drivers should be part of official kernels. But at least, if most vendors would adopt this approach, things would be slightly better.

Ciao
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