Personally I don’t see a problem with nVidia.
They are a company in the business of making money and want to keep their software ‘private’
If they won’t release source code, not a lot can legally be done about it.
Obviously they have done cost/benefit analysis and it costs more than it’s worth to develop drivers for multiple Linux distributions for the new video cards.
I do wonder if some of the problem is actually with Ubuntu et.al. not being completely honest about open source? (something like Google with Android which is becoming closer and closer to a ‘proprietary’ system?)
Isn’t there some way Google could be in breach of contract by making FOSS closed and incredibly difficult to modify?
I know this looks like it’s going off topic but the principle of nVidia being closed source private company and Google saying they are open source but blocking things is actually similar - the amount of effort and resourced required to ‘fix’ problems isn’t available from basically volunteers who may have far more important projects to complete rather than make a new video card work for some gamer who doesn’t care about the effort.
Basic ‘instant gratification’ syndrome’
Being British and ‘baby boomer’ age, I have a totally different outlook to majority of people under 40. While Daniel M Tripp has a lot of interesting things to say, he is also pretty ambiguous sometimes with his statements.
Normally I’m pretty good at ‘reading between the lines’ but many comments on here are beyond my understanding (I was teaching for almost 12 years and in that time had around 11,500 students so can generally figure out whats really being said)
As a ‘Community’ it’s almost like family, no families ever get along 100% of the time without friction. It just depends who’s going to be adult about things and forget ego
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