cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/185080
The updated demands:
So, NVIDIA, the choice is yours! Either: –Officially make current and all future drivers for all cards open source, while keeping the Verilog and chipset trade secrets... well, secret OR –Not make the drivers open source, making us release the entire silicon chip files so that everyone not only knows your driver's secrets, but also your most closely-guarded trade secrets for graphics and computer chipsets too! YOU HAVE UNTIL FRIDAY, YOU DECIDE!Will this be the only way to achieve decent hardware support cross-platform? Can’t wait for someone to take AMD/Intel managers hostage ;-)
BTW not sure why these people are called cyber-criminals. Sounds like cyber-heroes to me… I mean i don’t agree with their motivation (cryptocurrency mining) but they’re doing what government regulations should have done a long time ago, which is preventing hardware manufacturers from fucking up life for everyone. (or at least they’re trying)
I don’t condone this, but goddamn it’s hilarious.
I’m good with this.
Cool!
Nice! F*CK you Nvidia 😎
It is already Friday here. Where is the code though? I guess we will have to wait until night
did anything happen? i’m out of the loop
The leaked the data in the end
We’re all going to be in for a nasty shock when we get the schematics and realize there’s simply no way to make those cards stable. (I’m joking, don’t harass me with anecdotes about NVIDIA cards’ stability)
The nice thing is, since NVIDIA licenses IP from third parties it’s quite likely that the most rational course of action for them will be to not respond. Either way, some number of trade secrets and IP owned by others that they’re obligated not to disclose will be disclosed, but if they do nothing, they can only be blamed so much for it.
I don’t really know why they tried for the ransom, but I’m excited that there will be better technical documentation for NVIDIA hardware soon though!
