This is likely to be perceived as trolling, but I'd honestly like to know: why are free 3D accelerator drivers so important? The OSS community has proven to be utterly incapable of developing or contributing to such projects in any meaningful capacity, so what's the point? The argument I frequently see is that this is the fault of the GPU manufacturers for not supporting OSS devs, but if said devs need their hand held every step of the way, what makes people think they can produce a worthwhile, production driver? What's wrong with a high quality propriety blob developed by experts that actually know what they're doing?
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I get the feeling you don't know anything about supporting or maintaining software.
All it takes is a little bit of Windows bashing and good chunk of /. instantly becomes DRM apologists, eh? So much for ideological purity.
This is likely to be perceived as trolling, but I'd honestly like to know: why are free 3D accelerator drivers so important? The OSS community has proven to be utterly incapable of developing or contributing to such projects in any meaningful capacity, so what's the point? The argument I frequently see is that this is the fault of the GPU manufacturers for not supporting OSS devs, but if said devs need their hand held every step of the way, what makes people think they can produce a worthwhile, production driver? What's wrong with a high quality propriety blob developed by experts that actually know what they're doing?