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  11. Steve you should reevaluate your position on cloesd GPU code.... currently Intel and AMD both share code for thier drivers without issues as the so called IP just inst' that big of a deal since all of them are cross licensed anyway even Nvidia. Closed GPU code is so bad that HPC developers go to the trouble to develop thier own drivers to work around the BS that Nvidia pushes on them without fixes. It's very similar to the situation of AMDs drivers on windows, except AMD does have open source drivers they just aren't ported to windows, perhaps someday they will be (some of the code is shared between them though). Nvidia has no excuses for being closed, as if anyone wanted to take AMD/Intels drivers and build thier own it would be a billion dollar effort... and that is just a non starter, even Samsung is licensing AMD's GPUs outright rather than continuing to develop thier own... stealing just isn't practical. Also AMD and Intel SHARE OPTIMIZATIONS on Linux... there is no reason not to. This pushes the real optimizations down into the hardware, as all the software should function and perform the same anyway. You say bullshit like this, and then turn face when we get bullshit drivers.... you realize that its he very reason Richard Stallman (the old creep) even bothered to write open source code to begin with? He had this crap driver for for a printer at the time with closed drivers and it pissed him off... at some point he quit being productive though and became a software hermit... .but whatever that is beside the point. There are over a dozen open source driver developers at AMD at this point I believe.... making good money off open drivers... Also AMD goes as far as to run both their closed and open driver code on top of the same kernel driver, so code gets released first into the closed driver and then makes its way out into the open driver after legal review. Nvidia could do effectively the same thing, but they choose not to because they are lame.
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