“Hardware, as ever, remains a pain point for Linux developers
and users.“Speaking to a matter near and dear to many Linux desktop users,
Chris DiBona, Google’s open-source program manager, said, ‘I would
love to get either NVIDIA or ATI to actually give us the specs on
the drivers we want or let’s just reverse engineer everything and
do it ourselves. I would like to see you guys [the Linux
developers] do that. … Then, people would say ‘Oh well there are
free drivers out there, more people are using it, we’ll open source
our drivers, and so the users will use our driver and at least get
the best experience…””
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