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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