very interesting similar situation with Nvidia:<div><br></div><div><div>they ignore the request to open their drivers nor to provide info which would help linux community to write these drivers for them, which made Linus so angry he show them middle finger <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/18/linus-torvalds-nvidia-linux/">http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/18/linus-torvalds-nvidia-linux/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>the response of Nvidia was somethig like: we don't care, our Linux sales are too small to carry about your request for drivers</div><div><br></div><div>but now few weeks later I read this: </div><div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://www.ubuntero.com.br/2012/06/nvidia-perde-venda-de-10-milhoes-de-gpus/">http://www.ubuntero.com.br/2012/06/nvidia-perde-venda-de-10-milhoes-de-gpus/</a> </div><div><br></div><div>so Nvidia lost sales of 10 millions GPUs just because they ignoring Linux and GPL and their competitor AMD takes advantage by opening their drivers</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>I guess something like this is going to happen with ARM SoCs too, there will be company like Freescale or TI which are going to support open source of their GPUs</div><div><br></div><div>the price of the silicon is about same from the different SoC companies, so who offer better support will get more business</div>
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