Re: Why graphics drivers are proprietary

[Roger <arelem@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/10/12 19:18, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:

On 10/02/2012 12:14 AM, Junayeed Ahnaf wrote:

The header is self explanatory. I always wonder what bad would it bring to the vendor if they open source their graphics driver?
 
 
Thoughts?



Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor

If I had to hazard a guess?...I would say it more about money than anything else. Especially in THIS day & age when the economic landscape is bleak....and there's more "cloning" going on than anything else....(Apple vs. Samsung?) even those hi-def TV's that started out costing $3000.00 a pop are now...what?....like $600 at WalMart?.....just the capitalistic "nature of the beast"....


EGO II

It's simply greed based on fear of loss.
Take the most famous examples of open sourcing. Blender3D, Ton and his crew have triumphed with the movies they make being globally acclaimed and a totally free system being used by some of the larger organisations. They raise money by giving away everything and they sell the complete movie with all the source files for a token sum so that everyone benefits.
Take Guido and Python, Matz and Ruby, these among some of the more famous people in the computer industry. Are any of the programmers in Apple or Microsoft so well known?
Drupal, Gimp, and the list goes on. It is only fear of loss of something which they do not really own that prohibits.
Roger

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