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by Nullabillity 3480 days ago
> What about Nvidia's GPUs, community relations or [insert other topic] hobbles their open source one so thoroughly compared to AMD?

AMD provides public documentation for how the driver should interact with their GPUs, Nvidia does not.

Oh, and AMD employs some of the people developing the open Radeon and AMDGPU (non-pro) drivers, while AFAIK Nouveau is a pure community project.

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No idea if it's still the case, but at least Ben Skeggs and might be one more developer worked on Nouveau full time for Red Hat.