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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