Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E45 - HDMI spec refuses open source drivers
Added 2024-03-01 10:07:34 +0000 UTCHey everyone,
In today's episode, we have:
- 00:05 Open Source isn't sustainable
https://jacobian.org/2024/feb/16/paying-maintainers-is-good/
- 03:27 HDMI spec refuses AMD open source drivers
https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-2.1-OSS-Rejected
- 06:17 Thunderbird makes progress on sync and Exchange
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/02/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-february-2024/
Have a nice day!
Comments
Glad Thunderbird is taking ownership of the Snap version similar to Flatpak. This makes it official since in 24.04 Thunderbird will be distributed as a Snap application.
Mohan
2024-03-02 10:46:37 +0000 UTCTo be fair, I think he has a point: he's not saying that Open Source will die, he's saying that it's discouraging to see that everytime someone tries to make a living from contributing open source (which arguably is better for mankind than making a living writing proprietary software), you get a barrage of "don't use THAT avenue of funding" comments. it's clear to see with the likes of elementary OS, they ask users to pay to download by default, although you can enter "0" as the amount, and the amount of people who think this is "begging" is incredible. I think he's right: we need to accept that in our current world, any funding avenue that lets people create more open source software is a good one. As per HDMI, yeah, it's very probably linked to DRM / money grabbing copyright trolls, but it just sucks for the future of HDMI support on Linux... (Totally understand the exhaustion of civility reserves, after a day of looking at Youtube comments, I generally tend to be less civilized :D )
The Linux Experiment
2024-03-01 11:03:22 +0000 UTCJacobian is full of shit. The success of open source is firmly established and has survived the hegemony of rabid capitalism and cancerous greed very well for nearly four decades now. Human beings are social animals with deep altruistic desires, so the ethos of open source community ideals will always win against myths about human nature just being self interest. I think the blockades facing HDMI open source access are most likely due to the fact the spec incorporates defective by design DRM (Destructive Restriction Mechanisms) to appease the blood sucking copyright landlords. The fiefdoms have to keep the serfs in subservience, after all. 😉 (Sorry. I probably shouldn't be trying to write comments this late in the night when my civility reserves are drained). 😉
AArexx AAron Ruscetta
2024-03-01 10:21:01 +0000 UTC
