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Re:FreeBSD Experimenting with a Port of Nvidia's Linux Open ... by ShadowBanThis01 on Monday August 21, 2023 @08:24PM (#37217032)
It's a dumb name, to be sure, especially in an open-source context where everyone knows what "DRM" is and will have an overwhelmingly negative reaction to it.
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Re:FreeBSD Experimenting with a Port of Nvidia's Linux Open ... by resoluteteeth on Monday August 21, 2023 @09:10PM (#37217351)
Anyone who uses linux/freebsd will know what DRM actually means in this context
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Re:FreeBSD Experimenting with a Port of Nvidia's Linux Open ... by selfhoster11 on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @12:34AM (#37218732)
Doesn't make it any less annoying, from my own perception anyway. I have known about DRM standing for Direct Rendering Manager for years, but it's really annoying even today.
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Re:FreeBSD Experimenting with a Port of Nvidia's Linux Open ... by Qwertious on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @01:29AM (#37219027)
Sure, but it'll take a little longer to recognize the context, because the acronym is overloaded. It's like IPC. Or how "inflammable" means both "not flammable" and "extremely flammable".
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Re:FreeBSD Experimenting with a Port of Nvidia's Linux Open ... by hooch on Monday August 21, 2023 @09:11PM (#37217353)
Except DRM in this context is a Direct Rendering Manager [1] which is a slightly different struggle getting pixels onto the screen.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager

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Re:FreeBSD Experimenting with a Port of Nvidia's Linux Open ... by ShadowBanThis01 on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @05:04AM (#37220244)
Let's take a survey and ask people what "DRM" stands for.

I would bet a decent amount of money that the copyguarding one wins out over the rendering-manager one.

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Re:FreeBSD Experimenting with a Port of Nvidia's Linux Open ... by yrro on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @07:36AM (#37221252)
Unless you have a time machine, we can't go back and rename the subsystem.
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Re:FreeBSD Experimenting with a Port of Nvidia's Linux Open ... by pxc on Monday August 21, 2023 @09:14PM (#37217381)
How prominent was the phrase 'digital rights management' when Linux's direct rendering manager was created (Wikipedia says 1999)? The FSF's 'Defective by Design' anti-DRM campaign didn't start until 2006.
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Re:FreeBSD Experimenting with a Port of Nvidia's Linux Open ... by bcx5k15 on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @07:24AM (#37221182)
not at all, I recall that no one (outside of the music industry perhaps) used the phrase 'digital rights management' until iTunes added DRM to music in 2003/2004, other things like the copy protection for videotapes/DVDs/games were just generically called copyprotection, or other domain specific terms such as activation (in the case of things like windows XP), not DRM.
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