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Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver
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Riddle me this, why is there such a thing as proprietary drivers for anything? Especially consumer facing products like this?
Don't you want anyone and anything using your product in any situation? Help me understand NVIDIA's bit with this?
I assume nVidia have licensed other code that they don't have the rights to distribute the source code for.
I get what the GPL fans want here, but it's just going to lead to a gimped driver, no driver, or an even larger shim between the open and closed source bits. The Linux market is too small for nVidia to care.
The Linux community is literally Nvidia's biggest market. The current Linux market share in data centers is currently estimated to be 77%.
Sure but they don't play 3d video games do they?