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The Phoronix forms, where AMD and NVIDIA engineers can effectively communicate (lemmy.zip)
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Michael should be getting royalties

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DRM-Firmware-Repository

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[–] 65 points 2 years ago (1 child)

If you don't like Microsoft's contributions to Linux, you can fork it and remove them. If you don't like Microsoft's contributions to Windows, you have to use something else.

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  • [+] -18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It's not just Microsoft tho. Redhat, oracle, facebook, Google, intel, AMD, they all contribute to linux. Removing their contribution would effectively make the kernel unusable

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Isn't taking corporate money and extracting it into a public good a positive?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    So what's the problem with that? We get contributions for free to make newer hardware working, they improve already existing stuff, they solve bugs and everyone take advantage from that.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hardware manufactures (Intel, AMD, etc) SHOULD be contributing to Linux. How could they EEE if they aren't directly competing? The better compatibility they have with Linux, the more server CPUs they can sell. That's their motivation, and it's aligned with the OSS community.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Microsoft also uses Linux. They have both Windows Subsystem for Linux, and they also use it in house I'm certain. Linux is technically competition for MS, but not really. They aren't trying to sell Windows to the people choosing Linux. To assume malice when there's perfectly reasonable reasons for them to be contributing is likely wrong.

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