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Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA, Continues Working On Open-Source Driver
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this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2024
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I bet this is just an attempt at getting away a core contributor then reducing their productivity or diverting their attention from Nouveau. That, or they are really trying to opensource their driver. Given their history, I seriously doubt it.
Fuck NVIDIA
Anti Commercial-AI license
I have to think that nvidia isn't dumb enough to look around at their competitor's linux support, and look at the reliance on linux for compute in datacenters, and look at their pile of fancy new AI chips that they're going to try to sell to data centers, and think to themselves, "ahh, I know the best move, poach the best nvidia linux dev in the world so that ~2% of gamers are forced to use our proprietary driver!"
My guess is they're doing this to make money on AI, they couldn't care less about linux gaming. If we get an open source driver out of the deal, I won't complain, but I bet the consumer GPU driver has little to do with why they hired him.