I imagine Nvidia doesn't own the rights to the complete source code of the driver. Even if they wanted to open source it things move slow in big companies.
Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever
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#12So when do we ban cryptocurrencies already? The only use of this crap is crime.
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#13>"We decided to help mining and gaming community," I don't understand how this demand helps the gaming community. Wouldn't this drive up the crypto-motivated demand for GPUs even more and hurt the gaming community?
I think the argument is that driver source being open could help the (tiny!) Linux gaming community, but I agree. This is about mining.
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#14>"We decided to help mining and gaming community," I don't understand how this demand helps the gaming community. Wouldn't this drive up the crypto-motivated demand for GPUs even more and hurt the gaming community?
Just sell more GPUs. Nvidia makes more money. We get more and better GPUs.
I'm not sure how this is bad.
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#15>"We decided to help mining and gaming community," I don't understand how this demand helps the gaming community. Wouldn't this drive up the crypto-motivated demand for GPUs even more and hurt the gaming community?
For a long lists of reasons; I don’t like DRMesque features like LHR and don’t like the crypto craze.
(And to be clear, cyber-extortion is clearly a criminal activity.)
BUT, I think the ”helping gamers” sounds a bit hollow.
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#16>"We decided to help mining and gaming community," I don't understand how this demand helps the gaming community. Wouldn't this drive up the crypto-motivated demand for GPUs even more and hurt the gaming community?
Just sell more GPUs. Nvidia makes more money. We get more and better GPUs. I'm not sure how this is bad.
So I take it you haven't tried to buy a 30-series GPU for gaming, then. It's impossible*, and that's because of mining*.
* Yeah, yeah, I know, supply chain this and pandemic demand that, but it's really mining that's the culprit.
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#17I would rather outlaw cryptocurrencies for being a harm for the planet with their crazy energy demands, besides also fueling criminals.
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#18> So, NVIDIA, the choice is yours! Either: Officially make current and all future drivers for all cards open source, while keeping the Verilog and chipset trade secrets... well, secret OR Not make the drivers open source, making us release the entire silicon chip files so that everyone not only knows your driver's secrets, but also your most closely-guarded trade secrets for graphics and computer chipsets too! Intere…
No single piece of software has wasted more of my time than Nvidia's drivers, mostly (though not exclusively) on Linux. They've rendered my OS unbootable so many times over the years. So many times I've spent whole days of my life troubleshooting, upgrading, downgrading, configuring, rebooting. Then often reinstalling the OS after their installers mess stuff up in ways that are impossible to even know until they pop up and screw you later on.
I don't condone cybercrime but man would I just be ecstatic if Nvidia would finally follow AMD and Intel in developing an open source driver.
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#19Imagine if they actually leaked the driver source and verilog files though...
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#20So when do we ban cryptocurrencies already? The only use of this crap is crime.
Never, actually. Also you are wrong that the only use is crime. There are literally millions of stories in the last 13 years of cryptocurrency that demonstrate this. But of course keep screaming at the sun if you wish.