https://github.com/intel/intel-sdsi
Drivers for this landed in the Linux 5.18 yesterday.
Are we going to just ignore this?
@drq I mean given that Linux is ~99% corporate… probably?
@aral The question is not about how "corporate" something is or not, the question is what does it actually do. And this seems first and foremost to pave a way for implementing microtransactions-style business model in *actual* hardware, silicon space.
@masukomi @drq And then there are things not being what we might think they are. Linux is a corporate operate system that happens to be open source. Surveillance capitalism runs on Linux. Yes, some of us also use it for other reasons (and thank goodness it exists) but let’s not kid ourselves that the reason it does is anything but because it meets corporate needs and gets corporate funding. And my point is that the corporations that fund/develop Linux likely don’t have any objections to this.
Linux isn't even an OS, yet alone "open source".
Linux is a kernel, that is free software, although it does have a bunch of proprietary software in it in violation of the license (which can be removed to make it all free software).
>Surveillance capitalism runs on Linux
I would say that it's helped just as much as GNU than Linux, as GNU lets you use bash scripts.
A tool is not bad, just because people can do bad things with it.
>it meets corporate needs and gets corporate funding
I don't really care about this, as long as it's under a free software copyleft license - that way they can't get you.
The corporate funding isn't the problem, that fact the corporations keep violating the GPLv2 with no recourse is the problem.
@Suiseiseki Corporate funding is always a problem. Funding matters.
