I understand the sentiment, but it is sensible for hardware vendors to provide drivers for their products. They’re certainly in the best position to do it.
Thinking that open-source does not depend to a large degrees on companies is idealistic at best. I don’t like it anymore than you do, but i’ve been doing 100% open-source all the time as part of my job and our sponsors that actually move the needle are corporate.
And that is why we don’t rely on companies for any part of our open source stuff.
I understand the sentiment, but it is sensible for hardware vendors to provide drivers for their products. They’re certainly in the best position to do it.
Thinking that open-source does not depend to a large degrees on companies is idealistic at best. I don’t like it anymore than you do, but i’ve been doing 100% open-source all the time as part of my job and our sponsors that actually move the needle are corporate.
I guess chip makers would stop doing open source development? The community should reverse engineer everything like the Apple m series chips?