"Unfortunately, the "limited rights" (economic subsidy) to inventors are not very limited at all. This sort of takes away any motivation to help them acquire monopolies from work and ideas they frequently got unrestricted from the rest of society in the first place. I'm just hoping that of the next 100,000 great ideas, I'll be able to leverage a few of those. Gosh, how inefficient! Limiting the exploitation of ideas for 20 yrs to just 1 person instead of what is natural (unlimited use by all)."
Alyssa Rosenzweig is the graphics witch behind the reverse-engineered drivers for the Apple GPU. She previously led Panfrost, the free drivers for Arm Mali GPUs powering devices like the Pinebook Pro. She graduated in 2023 with a Computer Science degree from the University of Toronto and now writes free software full-time.
Now we have a project started primarily by Red Hat (and managed by Microsoft GitHub, which is proprietary) being managed by Microsoft and primarily serving Microsoft and IBM
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Jose_X
2009-05-27 12:16:25