nVidia has always felt a need to keep their drivers closed source, providing binary driver packages for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and BSD. This article focuses on the rationale and possible solutions to this “problem” in the case of Linux.
Archive for August, 2008
Linux and Closed Source: nVidia
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Adobe and Linux
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Recently, John C. Dvorak, columnist with MarketWatch posed an interesting challenge: Adobe could fend off Microsoft by embracing Linux. Well, first off, his rationale behind his was moreso a response to Microsoft’s Silverlight technology. Microsoft is attempting to build a replacement for Adobe’s venerable Flash player, a technology thousands upon thousands of websites use to serve dynamic animation and information. Dvorak then made the statement that Adobe should port their CS Suite to Linux.
