For GPL, open source supporters, and people who don't like or care about Nvidia support, Linux devs are doing the right thing.
For people who depend on their Nvidia hardware to work under Linux, I understand they are pissed off, since it break their support for a non-technical reason.
It is not unlike DRM when you think about it. In the "Digital Rights Management", it is a technical measure to protect the Linux kernel copyright ("copyleft" in this case). In the "Digital Restrictions Management" sense, it is a feature that is design to break something that works. And it is also about the "Direct Rendering Manager", but at least, no one complains about that DRM.
I just with that Nvidia had more competition. For not, they can do whatever they want because they have the best GPUs, both with regard to open source and price. AMD GPUs are meh right now. Maybe Intel will be competitive one day, from my experience, their Linux / open source support is rather good, but maybe because when it comes to GPUs, they are the underdog.
> or people who depend on their Nvidia hardware to work under Linux, I understand they are pissed off, since it break their support for a non-technical reason.
They need to redirect their anger at the correct culprit -- Nvidia. The non-technical breakage is a result of Nvidia continuing to try to sneak around restrictions that they should have been abiding by. Nvidia could have spent the resources to get their drivers to compliance, but instead they chose to use them to try to circumvent the restrictions.
For people who depend on their Nvidia hardware to work under Linux, I understand they are pissed off, since it break their support for a non-technical reason.
It is not unlike DRM when you think about it. In the "Digital Rights Management", it is a technical measure to protect the Linux kernel copyright ("copyleft" in this case). In the "Digital Restrictions Management" sense, it is a feature that is design to break something that works. And it is also about the "Direct Rendering Manager", but at least, no one complains about that DRM.
I just with that Nvidia had more competition. For not, they can do whatever they want because they have the best GPUs, both with regard to open source and price. AMD GPUs are meh right now. Maybe Intel will be competitive one day, from my experience, their Linux / open source support is rather good, but maybe because when it comes to GPUs, they are the underdog.