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Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA, Continues Working On Open-Source Driver (www.phoronix.com)
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[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 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.

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 30 points 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.works 6 points 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.

[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

...and makes the driver somehow worse.

Just revert the commit history.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 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.ml 3 points 7 months ago

Are you sure you replied to the correct comment?

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