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Also a good point, but Microsoft has a history of EEE so it’s also fair to be sceptical of them.
Also a good point, but Microsoft has a history of EEE so it’s also fair to be sceptical of them.
The way God intended
Only if they know about the repo, and apparently the Nvidia employee responsible for submitting patches upstream didn’t.
Maybe that’s why their drivers are so bad? /s
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.
If part of their job is working with the OSS community I don’t see anything wrong (and I just finished my annual training a few weeks ago, so it’s still fresh in my mind).
Edit: keeping an “official” repo secret does seem like an issue, but public posts about the correct process to contribute upstream doesn’t seem like a problem.
Yes, but some funding for Linux (some of which goes directly to Torvalds) comes from the Linux Foundation, so why would he?
I’m not sure I fully understood, but it sounds like you have several concerns with their competition? And those concerns are around asking people to design things that are potentially unsafe, giving bad advice for selecting materials, and awarding prize money to submissions by Prusa employees?