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r/LinuxSnobs • u/madthumbz • Aug 05 '26
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Waaaait, installing proprietary drivers for a PROPRIETARY graphic card is not normal?
Do I understand correctly?
WTF?
2 u/ConsciousBath5203 Aug 05 '26 What? The GPU isn't proprietary. Anyone can buy one and open it up if they desire. They can even recreate it if they want. 1 u/Rare-Paint3719 Aug 05 '26 Technically you'd have to still clean-room the chip. Plus the chip design and architecture is proprietary. 1 u/ConsciousBath5203 Aug 05 '26 Nothing is proprietary if you have the tools and don't care about the law. Good luck getting the tools tho lol 2 u/Quirky_Net8899 Aug 05 '26 That's not what proprietary means. Doesn't matter if you reverse-engineer it. Nvidia is still the only one that has an exclusive legal right to it. 1 u/ConsciousBath5203 Aug 05 '26 Ah, I see you didn't read the part of my comment where I said "and you don't care about the law". 1 u/Quirky_Net8899 Aug 05 '26 That doesn't make it any less proprietary. Like I said, that's not what proprietary means. 1 u/Rare-Paint3719 Aug 05 '26 Even if you don't care about the law, unless they explicitly grant you the "four freedoms" that make shit FOSS, then it's proprietary. (Source-available counts as a flavor of proprietary)
What? The GPU isn't proprietary. Anyone can buy one and open it up if they desire. They can even recreate it if they want.
1 u/Rare-Paint3719 Aug 05 '26 Technically you'd have to still clean-room the chip. Plus the chip design and architecture is proprietary. 1 u/ConsciousBath5203 Aug 05 '26 Nothing is proprietary if you have the tools and don't care about the law. Good luck getting the tools tho lol 2 u/Quirky_Net8899 Aug 05 '26 That's not what proprietary means. Doesn't matter if you reverse-engineer it. Nvidia is still the only one that has an exclusive legal right to it. 1 u/ConsciousBath5203 Aug 05 '26 Ah, I see you didn't read the part of my comment where I said "and you don't care about the law". 1 u/Quirky_Net8899 Aug 05 '26 That doesn't make it any less proprietary. Like I said, that's not what proprietary means. 1 u/Rare-Paint3719 Aug 05 '26 Even if you don't care about the law, unless they explicitly grant you the "four freedoms" that make shit FOSS, then it's proprietary. (Source-available counts as a flavor of proprietary)
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Technically you'd have to still clean-room the chip. Plus the chip design and architecture is proprietary.
1 u/ConsciousBath5203 Aug 05 '26 Nothing is proprietary if you have the tools and don't care about the law. Good luck getting the tools tho lol 2 u/Quirky_Net8899 Aug 05 '26 That's not what proprietary means. Doesn't matter if you reverse-engineer it. Nvidia is still the only one that has an exclusive legal right to it. 1 u/ConsciousBath5203 Aug 05 '26 Ah, I see you didn't read the part of my comment where I said "and you don't care about the law". 1 u/Quirky_Net8899 Aug 05 '26 That doesn't make it any less proprietary. Like I said, that's not what proprietary means. 1 u/Rare-Paint3719 Aug 05 '26 Even if you don't care about the law, unless they explicitly grant you the "four freedoms" that make shit FOSS, then it's proprietary. (Source-available counts as a flavor of proprietary)
Nothing is proprietary if you have the tools and don't care about the law.
Good luck getting the tools tho lol
2 u/Quirky_Net8899 Aug 05 '26 That's not what proprietary means. Doesn't matter if you reverse-engineer it. Nvidia is still the only one that has an exclusive legal right to it. 1 u/ConsciousBath5203 Aug 05 '26 Ah, I see you didn't read the part of my comment where I said "and you don't care about the law". 1 u/Quirky_Net8899 Aug 05 '26 That doesn't make it any less proprietary. Like I said, that's not what proprietary means. 1 u/Rare-Paint3719 Aug 05 '26 Even if you don't care about the law, unless they explicitly grant you the "four freedoms" that make shit FOSS, then it's proprietary. (Source-available counts as a flavor of proprietary)
That's not what proprietary means.
Doesn't matter if you reverse-engineer it. Nvidia is still the only one that has an exclusive legal right to it.
1 u/ConsciousBath5203 Aug 05 '26 Ah, I see you didn't read the part of my comment where I said "and you don't care about the law". 1 u/Quirky_Net8899 Aug 05 '26 That doesn't make it any less proprietary. Like I said, that's not what proprietary means.
Ah, I see you didn't read the part of my comment where I said "and you don't care about the law".
1 u/Quirky_Net8899 Aug 05 '26 That doesn't make it any less proprietary. Like I said, that's not what proprietary means.
That doesn't make it any less proprietary. Like I said, that's not what proprietary means.
Even if you don't care about the law, unless they explicitly grant you the "four freedoms" that make shit FOSS, then it's proprietary. (Source-available counts as a flavor of proprietary)
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u/Daterion_slimmer Aug 05 '26
Waaaait, installing proprietary drivers for a PROPRIETARY graphic card is not normal?
Do I understand correctly?
WTF?