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by BHSPitMonkey 4851 days ago
It's not /exactly/ darwinian when one project is being driven by an organization with clout and corporate partnerships. If you're Nvidia/AMD/Intel, which project would you be more receptive toward throwing your weight behind? The rinky-dinky band of Linux hackers with good intentions, or Canonical?

What the manufacturers decide to do is critical, and I promise you they aren't taking some kind of meritocratic open-source approach to evaluating where to place their resources.