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Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA, Continues Working On Open-Source Driver (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The solution is simple.

Fork the code and maintain your own fork.

.. or ..

You could say thank you and enjoy the fact that a person is being paid to write and maintain open source software.

If it all goes to shit, you can still fork the code.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That really depends on if NVIDIA pulls some nonsense and makes the driver somehow worse.

I'm hopeful, just a bit skeptical due to the decisions they've made in the past.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

...and makes the driver somehow worse.

Just revert the commit history.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 0 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I'll get right on that and resolve conflicts and maintain my own driver...

I honestly just gave up on NVIDIA and bought AMD. If this ends up working out well, I'll consider NVIDIA the next time I need a GPU, but the GBM nonsense drove me away.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Are you sure you replied to the correct comment?