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by loup-vaillant
2981 days ago
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How about an open hardware industry that would employ millions of people? Not to mention the questionable premise that we should have enough work to employ almost everyone. I mean, we're mostly programmers in here. Our primary task is to destroy jobs. Shouldn't free time be a good thing? |
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That being said, I don’t have major qualms about closed hardware. It creates the incentives that have allowed for massive investment in what is now cutting edge technology, and over time it is trickling down to more open hardware.
The number of proprietary technologies in a modern high-end GPU is staggering. Maybe one could say in an alternate timeline open hardware could have beaten companies creating GPUs with proprietary IPs, but it didn’t really happen. So I’ll take 1080tis with binary blobs over the open alternative.