[geoffhill]

> Valve has granted these Intel Linux developers complete access to the game's source-code, including the Source Engine. This has allowed Intel's Linux developers to better investigate possible optimizations and tweaks to their driver in order to enhance Source-powered games. Valve has even given them commit access to push back changes to the game company.

That sure is something EA and Ubisoft wouldn't do in a million years.

[ajross]

To be clear: they didn't email the code to some random people on the internet or post it to a mailing list. They shared it with employees of Intel Corporation, no doubt under NDA. Those employees happen to work on open source drivers, of course, but they certainly won't be spreading the Source source (heh) around.

[Florin_Andrei]

It's still okay.

[ajross]

Of course it is. I was just responding to the surprise -- this isn't Valve sharing their code with "the open source community". This is Valve and Intel jointly tuning software in a commercial relationship.

[gdc]

We did it all the time with certain hardware OEMs. Not sure where you get that, aside from "LOL EA".

[maximilianburke]

I don't know about Ubi but EA has done this in the past.

[missing_cipher]

Do you have a source?

[maximilianburke]

Nothing publicly citable, just experience working with IHVs in the course of my job. It happens enough that it's not really newsworthy in most cases.