Agreed - it is a totally different discussion between releasing your source to your customers (paying or otherwise) under some agreement, and making your driver into an open source project
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This. +100.
Note that this is the first thing Mr. Burn and I have agreed on it two weeks
If you call that credit. Not everyone thinks this particular religion is praiseworthy.
BTW… before you release your driver, I’d be sure it’s code reviewed… just to avoid the potential for embarrassment due to some horrible architectural error that would put your company in a bad light. I don’t know the OP or his company, so no disrespect intended, of course… but it happens.
And the OP’s driver source - how many people do you think he will attract to review and make changes to on his open source driver project?
You are correct that academic peer reviewed studies should carry more weight than commercial practice - and that frequently open source projects can be analogous in many respects. Various of these studies have even resulted in big companies making changes to their hardware / software so they must necessarily have their worth.
Note that this is actually quite different from producing and supporting a theoretically technically inferior, but actually extant product that business can rely on. As abhorrent as you have made it sound, this it actually a valid objective too.
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Seems to be just a classical example of a “straw man” argument. More on it below…
Well, you seem to be the only one to take the above projects into ANY consideration. It is (hopefully) obvious that people normally speak about Linux/GNU/QEMU/XEN/etc-grade projects when it comes to claiming the technical superiority of open-source model over the closed-source one. No one is going to say a word in this context about some project that got uploaded to the Sourceforge account in the year 20001 and had the total of 5 - 10 downloads without a single update in entire 14 years that followed, don’t you think. In terms of conversations about the living people, these projects deserve as much attention as miscarried foetuses,stillborn ones, those who got actually delivered but died shortly after the birth because of birth defects,etc. This is exactly the same situation. - these projects were dead right at their conception due to their inherently low technical merit and/or insufficient technical skills, as well as lack of longer-term dedication, of their originators, so that they are not worth even being mentioned…
