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On 10/03/2012 08:39 AM, Roger wrote:
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
That's an interesting way of looking at it, I've never thought about
it....Greed Based On Fear Of Loss.......WOW!....that would explain a
LOT when it comes to companies suing each other over the most
frivolous of claims....("He put a FRUIT on his device....we are
staking a CLAIM on that fruit.....even though it's NOT an
Apple....LoL!) Sorry to poke fun at them but they kinda "earned"
it!...)...LoL!
EGO II
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