On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 12:18 AM Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So: what's the best outcome for our *current* users? Again, pick only one. here's a perspective that may not have been considered: how much influence and effect on purchasing decisions would the choice made have? we know that proprietary embedded GPUs and associated proprietary software are not just unethical, and cause huge problems, they also hurt company profits and cause increases in support costs. by complete contrast, when all the source code is libre-licensed, this is what happens: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Intel-and-Valve-collaborate-to-develop-open-source-graphics-drivers-1649632.html basically what i am inviting you to consider is that in making this decision, the one that supports, encourages and indirectly endorses the continued propagation of proprietary 3D libraries is one that is going to have a massive world-wide adverse financial impact over time. i would therefore strongly recommend prioritising decisions that support libre-licensed GPU firmware and PCIe GPU cards that have libre-licensed source code. if systems with etnaviv are "punished" for example by this decision, that would not go down too well. if people running older Radeon GPU Cards (on the RockPro64 which has a 4x PCIe Card that easily runs at 2500 MBytes/sec) find that their cards perform badly, that is also not going to go down well. bottom line: your decisions here have far more impact than you may realise. l.
