• xyz@lemmus.orgEnglish
    26·
    7 months ago

    Putting the 2 trillion dollars worth into a good use. Happy to see open-source developers getting recognition and proper compensation.

        • Vilian@lemmy.caEnglish
          51·
          7 months ago

          i said red hat, you all can be mad how much you want not gonna change the fact that linux and open source today is only working because of red hat

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    191·
    7 months ago

    So, is this a good thing or a bad thing?

    I’m not sure what is more surprising that he is at the green giant or that he’s able to continue working on the Nouveau driver in an official capacity. Ben Skeggs has been involved with the Nouveau project for more than a decade.

    I don’t trust them, there has to be a catch.

    • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioEnglish
      333·
      7 months ago

      The solution is simple.

      Fork the code and maintain your own fork.

      … or …

      You could say thank you and enjoy the fact that a person is being paid to write and maintain open source software.

      If it all goes to shit, you can still fork the code.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        71·
        7 months ago

        That really depends on if NVIDIA pulls some nonsense and makes the driver somehow worse.

        I’m hopeful, just a bit skeptical due to the decisions they’ve made in the past.

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            22·
            7 months ago

            Yeah, I’ll get right on that and resolve conflicts and maintain my own driver…

            I honestly just gave up on NVIDIA and bought AMD. If this ends up working out well, I’ll consider NVIDIA the next time I need a GPU, but the GBM nonsense drove me away.

    • Atemu@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      17·
      7 months ago

      Nvidia has been slowly trying to open a little over the years; first GBM support in the proprietary driver then the open OOT module and finally GSP firmwares for the kernel; allowing an OSS kernel module to exist.

      The OSS graphics community has obviously shown that it doesn’t want Nvidia’s open module (which is tied to the proprietary driver anyways) and would rather build out its own OSS drivers atop an adapted Nouveau/NOVA. Perhaps Nvidia finally realised this?

      I’m sceptical too but for now this appears to be an actually good move from Nvidia?

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        8·
        7 months ago

        Hopefully? I’m optimistic, but skeptical. I hope the dev gets actual information about the product that they can legally use to improve FOSS NVIDIA drivers.

        • Atemu@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          3·
          7 months ago

          Yeah, that has been the largest pain point for all these years I heard.

  • Grangle1@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    7 months ago

    I’m not an Nvidia user, but just sounds like an overall win to me. Good for the developer (getting paid for open source work), good for Nvidia (further support of open source software), good for Linux Nvidia users (more Dev time/effort into the driver will likely improve it greatly).