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Ispada da je (unatrag nekoliko stranica) aktualna Clear Linux situacija bila samo uvertira u konkretne poteze za ubacivanje u rikverc.:)

Citiraj:

Intel's open-source strategy is changing at odds with the ethos of ppen-source:sweating:

Citiraj:

Intel's open-source leadership over the past two decades is rather undisputed: AMD has since ramped up their open-source efforts too with the continuing successes of Zen and their other products, but in the pre-Zen era there was absolutely no comparison that Intel did more than their lead rival around Linux/open-source. Intel also has done a lot more open-source work than the likes of Arm, RISC-V vendors, and other CPU ISAs/organizations with just the possible exception of IBM. Intel's open-source software strategy though has been clearly changing given the corporate struggles and subsequent restructuring at the company. Intel has been losing significant numbers of their Linux/open-source software engineers over the past year as has been covered in many articles.

To much frustration given my passion for Intel open-source over the years, last week at the Intel Tech Tour in Arizona statements were made that Intel will look at limiting/refraining from open-source contributions if in effect it means potentially helping their competitors or rather how to position open-source for Intel more favorably from their competition. The company needs to figure out how to make open-source more of an advantage to Intel and not its competitors. These words were bad enough to hear from any Intel executive given the company's vast open-source history, and not from some Windows-focused client representative but from a data center executive.

Intel's Clear Linux project ran great on AMD x86_64 hardware, countless compiler and kernel optimizations helped both Intel and those from other hardware vendors, Intel's prior SVT-AV1 / SVT-HEVC / SVT-VP9 projects led to much faster CPU-based video encoding everywhere, the Cloud Hypervisor project started by Intel years ago is now big on ARM CPUs too, the OpenVINO AI toolkit works great on AMD and ARM, Sound Open Firmware as another project started by Intel has since been adopted by several other SoC vendors, various oneAPI software projects work well on AMD / Arm / NVIDIA / IBM hardware, and the list goes on and on of how Intel previously raised the open-source software ecosystem as a whole. Intel's shortcoming wasn't that they invested too much in open-source or helped their competitor software stacks too much but that they failed to deliver the best processors often times for different workloads and customer needs or were too late to the party.

The statements I heard last week were unfortunate and painful and will potentially damage the open-source goodwill Intel established in the community over the past many years. If there was one topic beyond Linux and open-source itself that have been consistent on Phoronix over the past two plus decades, it's been about Intel's open-source contributions.

Izvor: Phoronix