The Fallacy Behind Open-Source GPU Drivers, Documentation

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jan 7, 2011 9:36 AM EDT
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One of the points that Linux users commonly say in lobbying hardware vendors to provide open-source drivers and/or documentation -- particularly for GPU drivers -- is that the open-source community will take the released code or documents and from there develop it into a reliable, working open-source Linux driver. However, that isn't exactly true.

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