Why Some Vendors Refuse to Open Source Drivers
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| "It's not an issue of revealing cool high end features
| to the competition that is keeping them from releasing the
| high-performance 3D drivers into the kernel. It's that the drivers will
| reveal flaws in the hardware that could be used against them by their
| competitors. According to him, all graphics chipset have flaws in them,
| that it's inevitable given the complexity of the silicon. The vendors
| code work-arounds in the drivers. By open sourcing the driver, they
| would reveal their flaws to the other guys, and they could use it as
| negative marketing ammo. On the other hand, he was not antagonistic to
| the idea of open sourcing his Linux drivers, he just needs to have a
| better grasp of what the upside would be for him to doing it," said James.
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