Re:Ask HN: Why is Google Premium not a thing?
by fartcannon on Saturday May 14, 2022 @04:21PM
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Towards open source freedom is my goal, not towards Tim Cook's bonus. nvidia just moved more towards open sourcing their drivers. You think that's out of kindness? No, it's because AMD and Intel have open drivers and nvidia is scared to lose market share to them.
Vote with your wallet and we can have a better future. I don't care if it's iOS, Android, or Linux! Just that it's actually open.
Re:Ask HN: Why is Google Premium not a thing?
by scarface74 on Saturday May 14, 2022 @04:56PM
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Nvidia no more moved toward open source than Google with the play store. It still depends on binary closed source blobs.
I assure you that Nvidia is not going to lose market share to Intel in the GPU race. Even Apple is creating chipsets Thad trounce Intel in graphics performance.
Did you also verify that Firefox installed from the App Store was the same as the open source version?
Are you using only open sourced code on your phone or are you using Google provided binaries? Are your drivers open source for your chipset?
If not, you are also using “locked down code”