Chromium blacklists nouveau
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https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2019-January/031798.html
Do they expect people to use the proprietary Nvidia junk?
"But let me reiterate what I said in #37: we want a stable and secure browser first, and a GPU-accelerated one second."
So I guess that statement means software freedom is not even in the first two things?
> So I guess that statement means software freedom is not even in the first two things?
Apparently not, unfortunately, but it's unsurprising that there is not a culture of freedom around the testing bed for a proprietary browser. Contributing to permissively licensed software is not unethical, but with Chromium directly upstream from Chrome, every contribution to Chromium is effectively a contribution to Chrome, so I'd expect it to diproportionately attract developers who are ethically comfortable with propietary software.
Permissive licenses work against software freedom. Another (dis)honorable example is MINIX, which is used by Intel ME.
I am a translator!
If I understand correctly, running Chromium with the blacklist enabled means no GPU acceleration. Shouldn't the browser work fine without this feature (as far as I know, none of the browsers I use on a T60 with Intel graphics support this feature anyway)?
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